How is swift water different from lake or muddy flowing river?
Mr. MILLER. They are both wet and that’s about the similarity. Mr. TERRY. I will give you that one. Mr. MILLER. Just a couple of inches of moving water, if it is moving fast enough, will knock you off your feet. It is a very dynamic environment and it changes constantly. It takes a great deal of expertise to learn how to operate a rescue boat in moving water as opposed to just getting in a boat and driving down a flat lake. Certainly if that’s the area that your people are detecting, they do need to know how to effect those types of rescues. But a swift water rescue is entirely different. The level of expertise is much, much higher. Page 28 PREV PAGE TOP OF DOC Segment 2 Of 2 San Diego lifeguard team, speaking with Marshall 2 years ago, and he was speaking with some of the emergency managers in Montgomery County. Marshall’s team does cliff rescues, dive rescue, a very wide array of different types of rescues as well as surf rescues. And he stated in his personal opinion the most danger
