Chapter 32 Terms

Question 1

Confined space

Answer 1

Any space with limited access that is not intended for continuous human occupancy; has limited or restricted means of entrance and exit.

Question 2

Distressed swimmer

Answer 2

A swimmer showing anxiety or panic; often identified as a swimmer who has gone beyond his or her swimming abilities.

Question 3

Drowning

Answer 3

An event in which a victim experiences respiratory impairment due to submersion in water.
May or may not result in death.

Question 4

Drowning victim - active

Answer 4

Someone who is vertical in the water but has no supporting kick, is unable to move forward and cannot call out for help.

Question 5

Drowning victim - passive

Answer 5

Someone who is not moving and is floating wither face-up or face-down, on or near the surface of the water, may be submerged.

Question 6

Litter

Answer 6

A portable stretcher used to carry a patient over a rough terrain

Question 7

Non-swimming rescues and assists

Answer 7

Rescues an assists that can be performed from a pool deck, pier or shoreline by reaching, using an extremity or object, by throwing a floating object or by standing in the water to provide either of these assists; performed instead of swimming out the the person in distress.

Question 8

Rappelling

Answer 8

The act of descending (as from a cliff) by sliding down a rope passed under one thigh, across the body, and over the opposite shoulder or through a special friction device.

Question 9

Reaching assist

Answer 9

A method of rescuing someone in the water by using an object of extend the rescuer’s reach or by reaching with an arm or leg.

Question 10

Throwing assist

Answer 10

A method of rescuing someone in the water by throwing the person a floating object, with our without a line attached.

Question 11

Wading assist

Answer 11

A method of rescuing someone in the water by wading out to the person in distress