2024-Mar-08
Learn How to Minimize Your Risk this Spring With a Cold Water Awareness Workshop
Mild weather and the lack of ice might make it feel like spring, but the water is not going to warm up any time soon. The Canadian Safe Boating Council (CSBC) is hosting their last virtual Cold Water Awareness workshop this winter on Tuesday, Mar. 12 & Thursday, Mar. 14, 2024 featuring Dr. Gordon Giesbrecht (aka Professor Popsicle), a world-renowned expert in hypothermia.
Virtual workshops take place over 2 evenings from 8:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m. The cost is $100 and participants will receive a certificate of completion.
Just added–In-person sessions!
CSBC will also be hosting an in-person one day Cold Water Workshop (general interest) and a two-day (instructor) workshop in Victoria Harbour, Ontario on April 13 & 14, 2024. The cost for the in-person sessions is $185/person for the one-day and $400/person for the 2-day workshop.
The workshops focus on everything you need to know to survive an accidental cold water immersion and how to help others who may have become hypothermic.
Topics include:
- Understanding the Myths Around Cold Water Immersion and Hypothermia
- How Our Bodies React to Heat and Cold Stimuli
- 4 Ways Our Bodies Lose Heat
- What Happens to Our Bodies When Immersed in Cold Water
- Immersion vs. Submersion in Cold Water
- Cold Water Survival and Thermal Protective Clothing
- How to Get Back in Your Boat Should You Fall Overboard and are Alone
- Basic First Response…When You’re The Only One Who Can Help!
- Victim Extraction, Packaging, Triage and Transport to EMS
- The Decision to Stay or Swim When You’re on Your Own
- Ice Assisted and Self-Rescue
For more information or to register, contact Ian Gilson at igilson@rogers.com or go to the Canadian Safe Boating Council website, here.
Watch Professor Popsicle tackle some of the issues in this short video: