Surface Ice Rescue

This book provides practical, up-to-date information on training, team management, equipment, and techniques for ice rescue teams Content: No ice is safe ice -- Preplanning the surface ice rescue response -- The three levels of training -- Who responds to ice rescue incidents? -- Managing an operation -- Surface ice rescue equipment -- The rescue : awareness-level duties and responses -- The rescue : operational-level duties and responses -- The rescue : technician-level duties and responses -- Communication and line tending -- Special ice rescue situations -- Ice formation and types -- Cold stress and hypothermia -- The four processes of heat loss -- Heat and fluid loss -- How repeated exposure to cold affects us -- Cold stress, immersion, and fluid loss -- Chilblains, frostnip, frostbite, and freezing -- Drowning. As the weather changes, a winter wonderland is nigh, bringing with it seasonal sports such as skiing, snowmobiling, sledding, ice fishing, hockey, figure skating, and simply the novelty of walking on frozen water.