The Most Realistic Croll Rescue – IRATA/SPRAT training

The Challenge:

A realistic setup of what a Croll rescue may look like if we forget to train for real life and in this case that would be rope stretch. Also known as “How NOT to do a Croll rescue on 25 meters of rope” 😉.
This is an example of what can happen if we forget to train for real life. Those short ropes in a lot of training centers can give us a false sense of capability and with that a false sense of security. The , as taught in many training centers around the world, only really works on short ropes.

The solution:

Like always, there are multiple ways to prevent this. In this video I will show you the most basic way to prevent this and I will show how I got out of the upside down situation 😉.

The easiest way and arguably the method that should be taught as standard is performing a counterbalance and using that to change the casualty over to his/her descender. The sitback of the casualty will be minimal and that we have no issue with rope stretch. And even better, after that the rescue will be a very basic Level 1 descending rescue.

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