challenging
4 days
Participants should be in excellent physical condition, comfortable with advanced swimming and water survival skills.
Train for life-saving maritime rescues with New Jersey’s expert-led Professional Rescue Swimmer course. This intensive four-day program prepares fire and SAR teams for real-world open water deployments, giving you critical skills to operate in challenging coastal conditions.
$699 per person | 18+
Enhance your rescue skills with our Maritime Rescue Swimmer course, designed for fire, water SAR, and dive teams. Learn unique techniques for deploying and recovering swimmers from rescue crafts in open water, guided by experienced instructors. This four-day training prepares you for the complexities of maritime rescues, ensuring safety for all involved.
If your agency has rescue-craft and swim fins, your people deserve this training (If you work with helicopters, we've got that covered too). This is a great course for fire rescue teams, water SAR teams, dive teams, water rescue teams and even a swiftwater team looking to advance into a different skillset. Swiftwater rescue techniques are great for what they are designed for, but once you throw a rescue-craft and open water into the equation, they don’t prepare rescue personnel for what they will face. The dynamic of deploying a Rescue Swimmer from a small craft, with or without tending line, and recovering the swimmer and survivor safely back to the rescue-craft is a discipline entirely unto itself. Our Maritime Rescue Swimmer courses will give rescue-techs, crew members, and boat coxswains the training they will need to complete maritime rescues successfully, and get all equipment and personnel back safely. While swiftwater rescue has become a well established discipline, open-water rescue swimmer operationss remain an elusive subject taught by few, and understood by even fewer. Our instructors have the rare, real-world experience to give your agency what they need to mitigate the vast risk involved with such a discipline.
Locations: -Northern Jersey Shore -Central Jersey Shore -Navesink River
*If you have a location in mind for this course please call our office and we can research it to be sure it is the proper training environment for this course.
Cost Per Person: $699 USD Per Person
Course Length: 4 days
Our Vice President and Rescue Swimmer course designer, Matt Novellino, is a former Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue Swimmer and Army Special Forces maritime operations team member. On the civilian side, Matt has instructed Rescue Swimmer courses to various fire and law enforcement agencies in the US and Asia.
Even summer months can bring chilly water in New Jersey; wear appropriate exposure suits.
Coastal weather can change rapidly, impacting training safety and effectiveness.
Ensure your masks, fins, and wetsuits are in good condition for optimal performance.
Hydration and rest are vital for peak physical and mental performance during intensive training.
New Jersey’s coast has long supported maritime trade and emergency response development, with rescue swimmer techniques evolving alongside its busy waterways.
The course encourages environmental stewardship by promoting minimal disturbance to marine habitats during training exercises.
Keeps you warm and protected during cold water exercises.
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Enhances swimming efficiency during rescue simulations.
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Improves underwater vision and breathing during training drills.
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Useful for signaling during open water practice.
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