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FASTER THAN THE MASTER
SLOW DOWN
You cannot move faster than the master of boating education. No matter how badly you want it, reality will show you the reasons why.
When you place yourself in that position, you cannot afford the tuition you didnât pay for by dedication, study and scrutiny. There are no short cuts to rising to the top. Failures can be costly, slow it down a little!
Desire should not be confused with competency. Training is a development structure of the direction one needs to go to attain the necessary skills as an occupational mariner.
Training itself for one evolution in training will not secure mastered success. Life teaches us this lesson all the time. Athletes exemplify it and schools represent it.
Donât think you can jump ahead without a conscientious respect for boating safety. To be part of community is to be immersed within it and surrounded by other mariners.
To develop your skills, give yourself about six months of applied training. That means every day training, not one training session on the water for 2 hours and 3 hours of preparations.
When somebody tells me, they have been operating Rescue Water Craft for 5 years I take stock of that quote and ponder the agreeableness on its terms.
5 years is 1,825 days. There are 24 hours in a day, if we take 40 hours as a regular work week, we are looking at 2,080 hours a year x 5 that would put them up to about 6,240 hours of Rescue Water Craft on water work. Nobody in the world has it.
Think about restructuring that answer. Stop saying you have 5 years of experience, and start saying you are still learning and get back on the boat!
Learning skills will be restrained or resolved depending upon the relationship value of the particulars that are presented to you and how those sills are corrected. Who doesnât want to be better at these operations? I sure do!
EARN YOUR MERITS DON'T CLAIM THEM
First you need to make a commitment. This commitment needs to cover several areas, your time, your money and your honest effort and willingness to make improvements. Thatâs asking a lot of you!
That means you have to be trainable.
Some people simply are not, they need to be realistic and conduct some homework first on the demands associated with Rescue Water Craft operations.
If you arenât ready to do that part, that educational sacrifice you will never master Coxswain skills needed in the dynamics of boating safety.
You will need professional help. Directly from experts who are properly vetted and tested by a boating organization. If you want the right help you need to go to the best instructor.
Be willing to take honest feedback aka critiques from your instructor. If you cannot take the advice, you probably are not the best fit for this demanding role.
Evaluations can be uncomfortable, but a mishap you create from not listening or not being able to grasp the advice will cost you more than you can afford in reputation.
Once you get your foundational skills down, practice on them one at a time.
âą Over and Over.
âą Set goals
âą Evaluate your benchmarks.
âą Move onto the next one.
While you are engaged in your skill building you are still in the experimental phase. Learning the ropes as they say. Do you know where that idiom originally came from? Our nautical heritage of course! The tall ships rigged with ropes to set the sails.
CONSIDER THE OBVERSE
Without the seamanâs knowledge of these ropes these ships could not catch wind to their sails. Hence âlearn the ropesâ was for the knowledge of the basics of sailing and as the ropes were learned onto the mastery of the ships rigging, raise the main and an assortment of knots as a deckhand.
An instructor will âshow you the ropesâ, because they have the experience to introduce you to the same thing! How does this work? Well, from imitation of course, but within the audience.
We have people who imitate poorly by not making that commitment for training. Without training, there is no knowledge and without knowledge there is no performance. Everything is reliant on the variation of the other. If not, itâs impractical.
In our method of training we know that learning the ropes means you will need to show him the ropes. You cannot master that which you can not define. This takes time, real hours, on-water hours, documented results.
Thatâs the hard part, people are spread thin on demands and it is challenging to respect the mastery of our seamanship skills. Itâs not for everyone.
Donât learn on your own, get advice, structure and feedback.
Donât think you can do this after one class, a few days or hours, thatâs a formula for failure.
Do learn by passing and failing your skills aka trial and error. Monitor your results.
Seek knowledge from a variety of resources and continue to learn, donât set an end point on your knowledge. Learn how to use your time in a context of value by focusing on key items you can include in your evolutionary learning objectives.
Be your own Devilâs Advocate. Why are you doing it that way, what else can you do, how will additional dynamics cause your methods to fail, what can you adapt regarding change?
Talk to people you donât like and to people you admire. Gain insights from both of their respective models. Speak up, donât hide in the shadows, reach out and tolerate the results.
You cannot move faster than your master. You may have to swallow some humble pie and realize they may still be on the pursuit of study as a learner and that may very well be why they are a master.
When you pair up with a vetted master you now have the opportunity to challenge the evidence and to scale your ambition safely and surely.
You donât want to end up a master of disaster.
Reconcile that time by becoming a prudent mariner.
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Posted: February 1, 2020
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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SEEKING GREAT COXSWAINS
WHY OPERATIONS MATTER
PRESSURE
Operations matter because you have made an admission you are dedicated towards serving others.
This is important to your family, so you can continue with forward success and their dependence and admiration is a value.
The inquiry of your spirit should become the dogma of your participation.
It matters to your team mates. Their lives may depend upon your choices and behaviors.
You influence the kinetic emotional energy, either by causing discord or protecting a unified front of purpose.
TIME IS PURPOSE
The agency you represent depends upon your character and integrity, not your ego or pride.
The hierarchy needs protectors who are humble through service and strong in action.
The public is relying upon your commitment.
For that person or persons in peril they are hoping for your intervention to be swift, smooth and professional.
They do not need a problem to arise from your actions when they are struggling with their own.
You need to demonstrate boating safety skills. You operate a Rescue Water Craft, you area Coxswain.
THE DEBT OF HERITAGE
As a Coxswain you rely upon Seamanship Skills.
Your Seamanship Skills are part of our Maritime Heritage, and you my dear colleague are a Mariner.
You are not a rescuer. You are more than that.
As a Captain you represent thousands of years of boating safety from every culture in the world that moved across the seas.
Your actions are a reflection of their sacrifice and loss.
Remember who you are.
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Posted: August 5, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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THE VOICE WITHIN
GUIDANCE
Have you ever had an inner voice that rose up from a shadow area within your mind, and it shocked you during a rescue? You listened to the words presented and took the advice. It worked in your favor.
Do you think about it later and wonder if you are crazy? I have.
Iâve had this voice many times lend outstanding advice in a moment of peril. It is a simple determination of words. Albeit nothing complex or drawn out. Itâs an actionable prompt usually.
This parallel voice, is it an echo of the mission or a position of the current experience? Is it an alarm to risk and changing dynamics?
There are things unknown taking place that didnât happen in training, perhaps this is the inner permission to continue out of the scope of boundary.
Itâs not the same thing as everyday thoughts that jump up like kernels of corn popping and then lay down, it is a more prominent alert.
The intuitive voice tends to orient me towards positive actions. Not ones that would cause me harm, although I could see a path to that could be fed for obverse reasons.
It seems as if its an integration of the risk assessment and a knowledge base. And this unconscious unified guide arises to help with a positive orientation. Itâs a choice to make, I think.
I have listened to this unconscious awareness that is alerting my conscious behaviors.
I donât know any other way to address this loud guiding voice.
I have given this a lot of thought and retrospective consideration. Do we call this intuition, gut instinct or a protective angel? I think that there is reason for these descriptions as well.
On November 21, 2001 at a large big wave spot called Mavericks at Princeton California, I had a memorable inner voice experience.
This was one of the largest recorded days of waves that were documented at Mav's. I was there working this historic swell on a Yamaha WaveRunner.
I had 4 of my WaveRunners being used at Mavericks, 1 by Jonathan Cahill, 1 by Paul Schulte and the last one being used by the Brazilian big wave champions Carlos Burle and Eraldo Guieros.
As the swell filled in towards the shelf off the Central California zone, the face of the waves began their temperamental approach. Outstanding big wave surfers from around the world were there proving their talent in this hectic watery plain, this is their rapture.
BLACKHAND
Approximately 1:45pm the wave faces were in stride with 70-foot faces.
The harbor department closed down the jaws of the harbor mouth for recreational boating traffic. I had a final conversations with Cary Smith a harbor deputy and I headed out again.
I got underway again, driving out to conduct another recon parallel to the jetty wall. Then across the channel, out to Mavericks and making calculated triangular search pattern for any mishaps that may have occurred.
I had conducted quite a few rescues this day and I was nearing exhaustion.
As I made another pass outside of the jaws, turning to my starboard quarter, I bounced along the jetty wall towards the inside section of the lagoon behind Sail Rock. I had a very loud and strong voice say to me in my thoughts âTURN LEFT NOWâ.
This voice was loud. It shocked me. In fact is startled me even physically. I attributed it to fatigue and shrugged it off.
A few seconds later the voice returned âTURN LEFT NOWâ.
When I looked down Blackhand Reef, it was angry and boiling.
Truly I didnât want to go there; I had already experienced a mishap in that area before this day and I was not wanting to risk my Rescue Water Craft.
The voice returned for a third time, and it shook me. I turned left towards Blackhand as if following a command.
The water was rocking and white capping. I was alone and uncomfortable with this decision; nervous I was hoping to turn back.
Right before my decision to retreat a black head popped up. âIs that a seal?â I said to myself. It was a surfer.
He did not have a surfboard. He had a black neoprene hood covering his head, his head was low in the water.
I did our trademark Johnny B and assisted him to slump over the rear seat on the re-boarding platform. I slowly drove out of the threat zone keeping an eye on him. We didnât talk.
INTUITIVE
I passed the safety of the harbor mouth and headed over to the path that takes surfers to the dirt parking lot. The harbor water surface had a crosshatch texture to its surface from the wind, it stung my face, this cold wind chill. I could feel the cold shrug off as my adrenaline settled.
When I pulled up to the inside of the jetty wall and landed, he climbed off the PWC. He crawled his way out of the water, stood up, waved and at me at started his slow walk back to his vehicle.
He was trapped in his thoughts and my internal dialogue was waking up. We didnât talk.
I was having a vivid conversation in my mind about this experience as I drove away. I looked back at his shadowy form to affirm he was not an apparition and this was a true experience.
I would never have gone down to Blackhand Reef on that day. Waves were barreling at 30â all along that edge. I was alone, with no backup.
That voice has visited me often throughout my life. Is this what makes heroes? Is this the evidence of integrating experience with the choice of believing that everything will be okay if there is trust?
That voice saved his life. And mine many times.
I have been fascinated with the internal universe of our mind. As a trainer this is what I have done my best to make friends with to gain understanding of others to become a better instructor. To become a better woman.
I would encourage you to explore the decisions you make. Why do you make them? How have they benefited you and others? Did you clearly see results that stopped a mishap or prevented tragedy? Is it noticeable?
I believe that awareness becomes a part of a purpose driven life. Isnât that where the essence of âa callingâ derives from?
Possible, at least I would like to think so.
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Posted: June 23, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
Sidenote: On 11.21.2001 the largest set came through Mav's later on this day. I was on the water with my dear friend Paul Schulte and Jonathan Cahill during that time. Carlos Burle and Eraldo Gueiros surfed the largest wave that year on this day. They won the XXL Big Wave category. The photo is from Pablo, whom has saved my life in many ways. I am indebted to his spirit.
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MOVING FORWARD
TRADITIONS MATTER
Doing what everyone else does, does not always mean that things are moving forward.
Bound by our former traditions we must adhere to a mindset of updating those traditions and be bound to âmoving forwardâ.
There are a lot of incompatible versions that were created two decades ago and worked fine then, but the craft have changed!
EXPERIENCE
We have to be judicious in updating our knowledge base.
This is why Certification for qualified Coxswains is based on a 3 year tenure. There is a lot that changes in those three years! You can tell this looking at your 6 year old child who is now 9.
Experience is a continuum.
To increase potential and safety, our operational facts must be translated or transferred into values. This is to be protected by standards which are laws or rules of engagement.
It takes all those thousands of facts and translated them into inherent values. There is not one, is is a complication of the following:
1. Water and Weather
2. Type of Rescue Water Craft
3. Maturity and Learning level of Coxswain and Crew
4. Program development AND management
5. Review of mishaps
6. Training with purpose
VALUE
This collaboration of needs is to create a rationality of what needs to be represented in the program itself to sustain it.
Training allows Coxswains and crew to decipher the responsibilities and apply it to the âdecision in actionâ.
Otherwise itâs a zero summation of potential mishaps that are welcome to advance.
This only works is the construction of program management is not a proposition but a community adherence of standards. When one community decides to make a standardization for our circle but has no knowledge and poor representatives, they will create poor results.
Who gets blamed?
Their students will be faulted. Because their instructors will not be scrutinized and neither with the program developers. They designed in essence a support structure of failure.
That is the bottom line of the problems we see worldwide, is these people did not create the training, do not know the boats, have not me the different users and waterways needs, but we have. We know this business and can see the failures within. I am encouraging you to look beyond your paycheck or your ego and look at the results.
How many mishaps, do you know how to rebuild your pump? Have you taken a qualification course based on 40 hours of instruction? Do you have your basic boater education? Do you have over 1,000 hours at the helm, or 100?
Your story is being told by the questions you ask, and the answers will help you with one thing; Seamanship skills.
Donât let them die because of apathy.
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Posted: June 18, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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SPECIFY YOUR QUESTIONS
THINK OF THE ANSWER
When you can specify your questions, you are arriving to an answer. Why such an oxymoron?
Because to question is to seek and in our K38 courses we challenge our students to first think of the answer as best they know in present time.
Iâve observed thousands of students over three decades. What I have learned from them is they seek an echo to their daemon, their inner guide.
INSTINCT
For the most part I witness that people do not trust their instinct, they are waiting for someone to blow a whistle to prompt them to move. And this is most damaging.
Our goal and yours should be to specify in as many terms of definition that is possible in any given action.
This ensures that you are taking responsibility for your learning. It really is up to you and not your coaches, you decide if you are going to learn and on your terms. So, study, constantly and ask questions.
VALUE
When you start to change the way you mentally engage with your learning capability your objective will become a true mark, rather than an imitation of someone elseâs interpretation.
Determine your operational responsibility, you can redefine your inherent value by predetermining your destiny.
You do this by choice. You do this by seeking, searching for the meaning and purpose through utility.
This is your personal miracle and its not unlikely if you pursue to act upon learning. Donât just read and watch, decipher the terms and organize the structures. You will become educated with purpose.
Trust me, ask me how I know?
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Posted: June 18, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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EMERGING BEHAVIORS
Not All Knowledge is Equal
Emerging behaviors are a part of continuing education, science and development.
This idea of emergence has been around since at least the time of Aristotle!
Definition of emergency
1: an unforeseen combination of circumstances or the resulting state that calls for immediate action
2: an urgent need for assistance or relief the mayor declared a state of emergency after the flood. *
Attributed origin: Mid-17th century from medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergere âarise, bring to lightâ.
Emergent human behaviors are influenced. We like to focus on education and physical behaviors based off the mindset of knowledge a Coxswain pools or draws their selection process from.
REQUIRE CORRESPONDING ACTIONS
Effective training is coordinated to relieve the possibility of chaos in our maritime community. Chaos generally arises during the stages preceding a mishap.
We can align them from a beginning point of program inception, vessel and equipment selection, maintenance training and enforcement, recurring training, adaptive maritime standards and subsequent reviews.
When we initiate a training program in motion with a group of individuals the experience, maturity and physical levels are varied.
There are a lot of considerations to entertain in drawing up the expertise and the lack of knowledge and merging it into one unified and consistent motion.
This collective is a continual process of education which focuses specifically on tier level skills and evaluations corresponding with corrections and continual dialogue. Agencies need to adopt this same behavior for their program management.
TRANSCEND COMFORT
To do so competently requires a set of rules, laws or guidelines. Or we could call them standards. Typically based off past experiences ranging from positive to tragic.
We look to the boating safety community for the guidelines to proceed forward. We look to the coxswains in the field mishap reports and after-action reviews to determine how to modernize. What works and what is a dead end and needs to be discarded or modified?
But they first need to be challenged appropriately.
The success of training is dependent upon the trends, products, equipment updates, electronic migrations that continually evolve and interfacing with the select water type of operation.
You can increase your program efficiency if you do the following:
1. Ask your personnel to challenge a current training evolution with evidence opposing it.
2. Be willing to trial it in safe conditions.
3. Evaluate the results with everyone on board.
4. Video the demonstration and study it.
5. Review it again.
6. Final consensus review
7. Solicit outside peer review
That my friends are how we do this at K38, and we think it will work great for you.
*Merriman Webster Dictionary
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Posted: June 15, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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ERROR TO ACHIEVE
Not All Knowledge is Equal
When we err in our training it is because we are striving to achieve specific learning objectives. This is the reason we all know why we train, we train to achieve.
You must understand how to hunger for the transcendent instead of the status quo, which is a bare minimum effort.
transcendent
a: exceeding usual limits: SURPASSING
b: extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience
c: far better or greater than what is usual
The Latin verb scandere means "to climb", so transcend has the basic meaning of climbing so high that you cross some boundary. *
Your coach aka âinstructorâ will share with you examples of their best-known practices. That is a starting point.
Prior to training your known realization was sufficient enough to maintain where you âwhereâ. But to get to another level of competency you have to park that lower resolution knowledge that worked fine for the duration of operations you sustained.
Then you need to head towards warp speed to acquire higher functioning actions, through the scrutiny of a guide with those skills you desire to apply! Can you guide yourself? Possibly, but you need goals that are structured.
MOVING FORWARD
There is more knowledge than you are aware of. Do you want to acquire it?
If you said yes, then do not be comfortable, remain unreasonable and start asking questions.
1. Get out a piece of paper. Write 5 of your last mishaps.
Detail them out from the start to the finish.
2. Now Write 5 solutions!
Detail those solutions in comparison
This exercise will help you in all things.
TRANSCEND COMFORT
Keep after it, seek knowledge, donât have a closed ego, use that internal power properly and accordingly. You must strive for the transcendent in your field.
If you think you know it all, then there is not reason to speak to you. Ignorance holds us hostage to progress.
Those who are curious are brave. They see the water rescue world as a continual adjustment of skills and equipment.
Error is our enemy and that resides within us, keep your mind organized on target goals and achieve them. From this you will continue to acquire the rescue mindset of wisdom our ancestors passed on and we ignore.
This is a moral obligation of service for water rescue. Keep moving ahead, when you are comfortable its' time to start learning something new!
Stay steady friends!
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Posted: June 15, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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SAFETY MATTERS BECAUSE IT STANDS FOR SOMETHING
THEORY EXCUSE FOR EGO
As your online mentor I would ask you to start thinking critically, open your attitude and park your ego. But only for a little while, you are going to need your ego later on the water.
Let's understand how learn defining what is taking place in sequence of operational security.
So, I encourage you to look at physics. What does this mean?
Well its not based on theory its based on scientific evidence!
PRUDENT MARINER
We tend to put up defense when our pitfalls are identified. This is something that comes up in training for us as instructors, how can we not 'offend' someone who doesn't know what constructive criticism is or how much it matters!
Criticism is not negative, in fact its necessity.
Any person who cannot take constructive criticism is the wrong fit for boat operations. Because risk does not give a damn about their emotions.
If they vocalize a string of defensive excuses such as blaming the boat, the dock, the rock or the wave and fail to identify their selective decision in putting their craft in those situations they hold onto dangerous thinking! We cannot accept this, we must take responsibility for our maneuvers.
When operators become defensive and cannot admit their errors, we have to pull them off the boat and get them back in training. This is the best way to help them and to protect their reputation and get them on the right track.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS NOT BLAME
Constructive criticism is the fast track to success!
If you are defensive and have problem with instruction, guidance and critical peer review, you need to stop it. That is fear talking from a weak position that will harm you.
Donât be that person. If you are unable to take criticism you are not trainable. That means you are a liability waiting to explode.
These type of people are a boating safety problem, it will be revealed at some point because everyone runs a camera and cameras donât lie. They are moving backwards, not forward.
As friends in boating safety we don't want to see our colleagues fail. We will not lie to them. We will tell them what they need to know so they can succeed.
If we fail to be honest with those who are struggling or operating dangerously we would not care about them. We are sad when we see our colleagues fail, when crisis strikes we take no joy in their problems. We are all in this boat together, we are one team, but we all need to pull our oar in stride or we won't get anywhere.
Most folks will take any attention they can get without retrospective scrutiny of their motives, especially if its negative. First we need to identify the negative of our operations and challenge it to physics and safety.
Negative attention is more seductive than responsible actions. That is why weakness prevails, its easier to be weak than strong.
Yes, our community has a multitude of chronic abusers; lauding their mishaps as if they should get a medal for surviving repetitive negligence. We see too many of these Zero Heroes. They need to be fixed so they can rise up instead of going backwards.
What we need are competent Coxswains who represent our boating community with honor and seamanship skills. Men and women who respect our maritime heritage and nautical ancestry. We all need to enforce competency to take the stage and put these careless operators in the queue for learning.
How do they get away with it? Itâs not because they are great, itâs because a Personal Water Craft is very forgiving! Give our boats their credit due! We have to constantly assess ourselves as well and make sure we are walking the walk honorably in our helm behavior.
Your safety is first. If you have an operator who is reckless, say something. When any person fails to recognize evidence-based facts, donât get on a boat with them! Protect yourself first and choose wisely who you will board with.
Thatâs a tough one for publicity seekers, because the general public cannot weigh risk versus gain and drama is the immediate reward.
Critiques and constructive criticism only sting if you recognize yourself as the problem and realize you are not up to par.
It wonât sting at all if you are willing to learn and have a hunger for appropriate knowledge.
In fact, imagine how fast your increase will be!
Most professionals hunger for constructive criticism, its called âtrainingâ. Reviews are part of the learning process and are taken seriously.
Be very hungry and ask for a review!
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Posted: June 12, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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Have any questions? Join the Rescue Water Craft Association
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What it Means to be a Rescue Water Craft Coxswain
RESPONSIBILITY IS MEANING
One must have the internal dedication and fortitude to apply oneself towards mastery, proper use of vessel care and inspection; maritime law, and seamanship skills.
To use proper care and utility of personal protective equipment, communications and navigation.
To be competent working as an individual or on a team under duress during recoveries of humans and animals with extreme pressure from the elements applied at the moment while on a mission.
To finish the ending with a safe transport and consideration of a stable vessel and survivor care.
To act properly when at the helm or on-board towards the goal of patrol duties and rescue needs.
To be able to determine the scope and risk of operations and changing directions.
PRUDENT MARINER
To be able to alter a life-threatening experience by degrees of severity and measured responses.
To decipher the past events in chronological order for inspection, review and critique and remedial correction when required.
To face these moments with courage and the spirit of examination and faith in their practices.
To be truthful in standards of operation and to act up on them while managing the risks for all on-board.
To not cause harm and to come home safe.
To be physical fit and mentally strong.
To be a diligent critical thinker.
To execute demanding vessel handling skills in dynamic conditions and maintain stability.
STRUCTURE OF REALITY
To do these things one must not have the audacity to claim one is a Coxswain simply through having hands on the helm, but to act out the safe behaviors and live it as a way of being.
This requires self-inspection and remarkable observation of fact, rule and danger, and an investment in preventing on-duty tragedy.
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Posted: June 10, 2019
Content Creator of Rescue Water Craft and Personal Water Craft boating international education standards: Shawn Alladio is the worldâs foremost authority and leading subject matter expert. She cares most about her community and the culture surrounding the safety of event service providers and Rescue Water Craft operators, working hard and dedicated towards protecting their reputation, distributing safety information and continuing to train these amazing individuals to the highest standards of care.
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