page_title: Rescue swimmer
section_title: Japan
hierarchical_section_title: Rescue swimmer / Japan
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 横須賀市大津湾海上で行われた訓練において、横須賀海上保安部所属の巡視艇「すがなみ」の上空でホバリングする羽田航空基地所属のヘリコプターから降下する特殊救難隊員。
context_page_description: Rescue swimmer is a designation given to rescue specialists, most commonly in the service of the military. Rescue swimmers usually are charged with the rescue, assessment, and rendering of medical aid to persons in distress in the sea, on the land, or in the air. This highly specialized position is extremely challenging.
context_section_description: In Japan, air-sea rescue operations are mainly conducted by the Japan Coast Guard (JCG), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF). 
  In the JCG, divers (潜水士, Sensui-shi) have been conducting public safety diving. And now there are two additional categories of rescue-swimming specialists: mobile rescue technicians (機動救難士, Kidō-kyūnan-shi) and the top-tier Special Rescue Team (SRT). They are divers specially trained to acquire some advanced techniques including abseiling, and some are also qualified as emergency medical technicians to provide medical treatments.
  In the JMSDF, helicopter rescue swimmers (HRS) are selected from assistant nurses and trained as both aircrew and divers. In contrast, paramedics (救難員, kyūnan-in) of the JASDF, Japanese counterparts of the United States Air Force Pararescue, are not always medical professionals, but they must complete the Airborne Ranger Course of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force to acquire mountain rescue and combat search and rescue capabilities.
caption: A SRT officer abseiling from an AS332L1 helicopter.
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