Technical rescuer
Subtitle: rope : levels I and II
By: Jeff Matthews
Series: Technical rescuer
Publisher: Delmar/Cengage Learning; Cengage Learning
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Clifton Park, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781428320567
Subjects: Rope; Rescue work
Other titles: Rope
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Rope rescue: an introduction; title: Incident planning and scene management; title: Safety; title: Equipment and system components; title: Knots; title: Anchor systems; title: On belay; title: On rappel; title: Lowering systems; title: Mechanical advantages, raising and ascending systems; title: Tensioned rope systems.