Many rescue watercraft training businesses will offer you a certificate, but they have no backing, no challenge. Aqua 7 is the only training that meets the stringent requirements and certification of California State Fire Training.

Aqua 7 has always prided itself on teaching by demonstrating the safe and proper way to use a rescue watercraft to remove a victim(s) from a dangerous aquatic environment and bring that person to a safer area. All of our instructors have years of actual experience using rescue watercraft to train and perform actual rescues. Aqua 7’s detailed curriculum has earned the respect of other training agencies teaching rescue watercraft operations.

All Aqua 7 classes develop an Incident Action Plan (IAP) before the first hour of instruction. For the plan to be complete each agency is required to obtain information on local mechanics, emergency medical services (if they don’t provide their own), food delivery for lunches, notification to other agencies that we will be on the water training.

The minimum three days (24 hours) rescue watercraft course is custom designed for your agency’s needs.

Aqua 7 strongly recommends each agency starting a rescue watercraft program, look into its local boating safety standards, and successfully obtain a boating safety license or certification.

Above all, risk management will be explained and repeated throughout the course to bring all students’ attention to hazards and complications within the waters we will be training on and in.

Orientation to the rescue watercraft, the terminology used by the industry, and safety involved with pre-and post-launch operations will be covered thoroughly and explained each day of class.

The water that the agency will be responding to, the methods of reading the water and understanding why the water is doing what it’s doing, will be discussed in the classroom. Once the class moves out to the water, the students can better experience the benefit and understand the importance of being able to read the surrounding geology which aids in reading the hydrology of the water’s movement. This is all part of the ongoing and invaluable lesson of risk management.