I'de call that a body recovery, and I don't teach that till Rescue.
Just giving up on an unconscious diver? I feel bad for your dive buddy.
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I'de call that a body recovery, and I don't teach that till Rescue.
BSAC include "Basic" rescue in initial pool training.
The most important aspect with my effective rescue interventions was having the confidence to 'act'... to take responsibility and get involved. This is closely followed by the capacity to keep a cool mind and avoid panic. Only then can you effectively problem solve and react effectively. The specific rescue techniques utilised were of much less importance than that.
How do you train someone to think when they're panicked? How do you stay calm in a life and death situation when the adrenaline is surging thru your body?
I'm wondering... how do you train someone to stay cool in a difficult situation? How do you train someone to think while they are panicking? Is it possible? Or are there some people who are just never going to be able to function while in a panic?
I don't want this to be taken out of context, but part of the reason for training is to save the diver from the burden of thinking - you simply do what is correct, rather than think about it and second-guess yourself. Stopping problems when they are small breaks the panic cycle before stress blows-up into full panic.
Also correct. No one can think or act reasonably while experiencing panic. That's what panic is -- instinctive responses where the upper brain has simply disengaged and handed over the flight controls to the more rudimentary parts of our neurosystem .I don't know how one would train someone to think while panicking. I would hope that training would prevent the panic from happening, or at least delay its onset.
Training allows people to have things to do when facing a problem. Panic happens when your mind can't come up with a solution to your problem fast enough, and your brain goes "i don't know what do to -- hit the flight or fight reflexes!" So training helps you identify a problem quicker, and then adhere to an established set of responses to that problem. By having done the pretend games over and over again in preparing for a real emergency, the neural connections in your brain have already been made. Those ideas are pre-created for you to use. That means you don't have to reason out a response. you don't need to get creative. Instead, you can simply do what you already know to do.I believe that most people cannot function rationally when in a state of panic. However, some can calm themselves down after they became panicked, revert to their training, and extricate themselves from a bad situation.
I'm wondering... how do you train someone to stay cool in a difficult situation? How do you train someone to think while they are panicking? Is it possible? Or are there some people who are just never going to be able to function while in a panic?
This is another situation where I am aware that I can't think clearly when seriously stressed or panicked. I try. I slow down my breathing. I do what I can to minimize the effects of the stress, but I really don't think well. And I'm just not sure how I can fix that.
Took trapeze lessons a couple of years ago. The adrenaline flow was so huge that it seriously impaired my ability to hear, to move, etc. Much less to think coherently. The nausea was as close as I've ever come to upchucking without doing so. It also completely drained my blood sugar reserves so that for a 2 hour $75 session, I could only jump off that platform about 3 times before I was unable to climb the ladder again. LOL! Then it pissed me off that I could not control my fear any better than that. There was a net, I was roped up six ways from sunday with a safety belt on. It was safe, but my primal fear thing just was not listening to logic. I ended up taking beta blockers to put the squeeze on the adrenal gland so I could function. That experience taught me that I could act in spite of fear. But it didn't teach me how to think and reason in the face of panic.
When I was a brand new diver, I once experienced unexpected panic. But because I had a plan and followed it, there was a very good outcome. I got to feel panic and not be injured. We were diving off a pontoon boat. My mom was fishing on one side of the boat and we were diving off the other side. She got her hook caught in one of the anchor ropes. I came up pretty empty... well, pegged actually. She asked me to go get her hook. I reasoned that I'd be right on the anchor rope and could just haul myself up if I ran out of air. And in a worse case scenario, it was only about 25 feet of water; I'd just drop my gear and surface. So I went after her hook. Just after I freed it, I ran out of air. My eyes got big as saucers as the panic hit, then I followed my plan and hauled my ass up that rope. I consider that experience a very good one in that I know what panic feels like and what it does to me.
How do you train someone to think when they're panicked? How do you stay calm in a life and death situation when the adrenaline is surging thru your body?