Particularly when they are held on a roller coaster at an amusement park. The Rescue Challenge was held again this year at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Va This is a place forever emblazoned in my brain from the summers of my teenage years spent standing in line for hours for every roller coaster in the park.
Teams from Maryland and Virginia came to the park to rescue a mannequin suspended from a precarious position over a body of water. From the video, and from my memory of seeing coverage of a previous drill at this site, it appears that most teams used a boat and some standard rope rescue techniques to get the victim, albeit at a high level.
Ever the guy looking for Plan’s B, C, and D, I wonder if it would have been possible to do a swim combined with some rope access techniques? I guess I won’t know until I sign up a team for next year and give it a shot and give it a shot.
Here is this year’s coverage :
http://vp.mgnetwork.net/viewer.swf?u=b974d186ebfe102f8fb5001ec92a4a0d&z=SLS&embed_player=1
Does anybody else do anything like this in their area? Continue Reading