# Event Details

- **Event Name**: ACA River Safety & Rescue
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 08:00 am – Sun, 04 May, 2025 at 05:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Are you a person who spends lots time on the water in a canoe, kayak, or standup paddleboard? Would you like to know how to be safer on the water and help a fellow paddler in distress? Consider joining Roanoke City Parks & Rec for a 2 day River Safety and Rescue Course. Over two days a of instruction, an American Canoe Association instructor and trainer will teach you key topics for water safety and rescue including:

Trip planning: How to minimize potential hazards and risks through proper trip planning 

Personal safety: How to avoid personal injury by wearing the right protective equipment and clothing 

River hazards: How to read the water and recognize and avoid common river hazards, such as entrapments and pins 

Swimming: How to perform a downstream swim of a rapid, including defensive and aggressive swimming techniques 

Self-rescue techniques: How to perform self-rescue techniques 

Simple rescues: How to perform simple rescues of paddlers in distress 

Rope coils: How to make a successful throw to a stationary target in a rapid using a rope coil 

Stabilization lines and cinches: How to use stabilization lines and cinches to stabilize or release a trapped person

Cost: $125
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/roanoke/aca-river-safety-and-rescue/200027929474947
- **Event Categories**: sports, workshops, trips-adventures
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 27

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://secure.rec1.com/VA/roanoke-va/catalog?filter=c2VhcmNoPTM1NDUwOTg%3D&utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=roanoke-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Roanoke
- **state**: VA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Wasena Park
- **lat**: 37.266206486419
- **long**: -79.958968162537
- **full address**: Wasena Park, 916 Winchester Ave SW, Roanoke, VA 24015-5318, United States,Roanoke, Virginia

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: PLAY Roanoke (https://allevents.in/org/play-roanoke/2260679)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 08:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wasena Park, 916 Winchester Ave SW, Roanoke, VA 24015-5318, United States,Roanoke, Virginia
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** PLAY Roanoke
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** sports, workshops, trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about ACA River Safety & Rescue ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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