OCR 2000
PHOTOS BY JAN AND BUD
MARCH 18, 19
BOWDEN CAVE, WV
• Patient Assessment
• Stabilize patient using
an Oregon Spine Splint
Patient movement techniques
• After the patient is packaged we go down the steps and
across to the obstacle course.
Team Work
• Whether the cave is low and wide or tall and getting
higher, team work is needed
• This passages is only inches high and 3 feet wide.
• Just a small bump to navigate.
• Cave passages come on all shapes and styles.
• This passage started exceptionally steep and then changed into a greased slope.
• No passage is missed, even the space under the pavilion counts.
• Now the callout. We mobilize to find overdue cavers.
• Potential rescue personnel check in at the site.
• Teams are assigned and report to entrance control.
• Communications are setup above and below ground to coordinate the search and rescue.
• The Personnel Coordinator has made the assignments and awaits the next wave of request, volunteers, or sending every one home after the successful completion of the search and rescue.