Coastal Kayak Training - Level I

What will you Learn

Skills

• Introduction to Kayaking, types of kayaks, types of paddles, types of pfd

• Paddling Strokes: Forward Stroke, reverse Stroke, Sweep stroke

• Signaling: Signals to communicate with fellow kayakers.

• Bracing: high brace, low brace

• Reading Sea: Rip Tide, Low Tide, High Tide, Tide phase, sea swell, swell size

• Reading sea waves: Spilling waves, Plunging Waves, Surging Waves

• Wind: sea breeze, land breeze

• Weather: High Atmospheric pressure, Low Atmospheric Pressure, extreme weather like Cyclone Formation, weather Forecast, sea condition Forecast

• Coastal Vegetation in India

Experience

• Sea Kayaking on sit-on-top kayak: crossing the surf zone, surfing the whitewater wave

• Paddling: backwater, ocean, daytime and night time paddling

Rescue/Safety

• T-Rescue, wet-exit