Explore every episode of the podcast The Safety Break
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Village | 15 Sep 2025 | 00:37:34 | |
Paddlers join forces to help save their neighbors trapped by the rising floodwaters of the Swannanoa River. | |||
| Blind Drop | 16 Jul 2025 | 00:28:20 | |
A hidden strainer creates a day of carnage on Overflow Creek in Georgia. | |||
| Gambling with all the Marbles | 27 May 2025 | 00:33:09 | |
A solo paddler encounters a hidden strainer in the spring runoff of the Beartooth Mountains of Montana. | |||
| A Conversation with Charlie Walbridge | 30 Apr 2025 | 00:37:43 | |
Charlie Walbridge describes his career of river safety education, his work with the AW Accident Database, and recent conservation efforts involving Big Sandy Creek. | |||
| Big Splat | 04 Apr 2025 | 00:42:42 | |
A missed roll leads to an upside down run over a waterfall, directly onto a rock. We'll discuss management of multi-system trauma in the wilderness, plus a bonus story from Jeff Snyder describing one his best screw-ups on Big Sandy Creek, from his early days of cutting edge paddling. | |||
| The Right Place at the Right Time | 14 Dec 2024 | 00:37:55 | |
A successful live-bait rescue and resuscitation on the Green River Narrows. | |||
| Testing the Waters | 30 Oct 2024 | 00:38:07 | |
Returning to the rivers of Western NC after Hurricane Helene. | |||
| Risk and Reward on the Russell Fork | 14 Oct 2024 | 00:40:53 | |
A close call in an undercut rock on the Russell Fork Gorge, plus some history of the race and the annual river rendezvous. | |||
| Royally Screwed | 17 Apr 2024 | 00:35:05 | |
A cold water immersion and entrapment on California's Royal Gorge. | |||
| The No Fall Zone | 16 Mar 2024 | 00:27:53 | |
A high water swim on the North Fork of the Payette | |||
| We just saw it from a different point of view: Tangled up in the leash debate | 14 Dec 2023 | 00:37:37 | |
Exploring the issue of paddleboard leash entanglement. Cover photo by Paul Clark. | |||
| The Saluda Boys, Green Race Safety, Part 4 | 25 Oct 2023 | 00:20:44 | |
A conversation with one of the legendary Green Race safety crew. Cover photo by Todd McGinnis. | |||
| The Safety Net, Green Race Safety, Part 3 | 20 Oct 2023 | 00:24:12 | |
A look at the complicated logistics of Green Race safety. | |||
| The Mental Edge: Green Race Safety, Part 2 | 20 Oct 2023 | 00:25:35 | |
Tackling the mental and physical challenges of Green Race preparation. | |||
| Go Left and Die: Green Race Safety, Part 1 | 13 Oct 2023 | 00:24:08 | |
A hard crash and entrapment during a race practice lap. | |||
| Picking Up the Pieces: Shoulder Dislocations, Part 2 | 01 Oct 2023 | 00:23:57 | |
An interview about shoulder health and rehabilitation after injury. | |||
| Up Against the Wall, a Shoulder Dislocation on the Stikine, Part 1 | 12 Sep 2023 | 00:35:35 | |
A paddler confronts a shoulder injury deep in the Canadian wilderness. All about shoulder dislocations and how to fix them. | |||
| Resurgence | 13 May 2023 | 00:35:51 | |
A whitewater athlete finds his way back to the river after a life-changing accident. | |||
| Behind the Curtain on the Agua Azul | 25 Mar 2023 | 00:37:31 | |
A paddler is trapped behind the curtain of a large waterfall, with no clear way to escape. After more than an hour, his friends reach him using a live bait rescue technique. | |||
| A Glance at the Abyss, Part 2: Resuscitation | 16 Feb 2023 | 00:27:37 | |
A close look at the resuscitation of a drowning victim on the Jalacingo, and essential CPR education. | |||
| A Glance at the Abyss, Part 1: Submersion on the Jalacingo | 07 Feb 2023 | 00:24:43 | |
A paddler has a brush with death after a prolonged submersion. Once his friends retrieve him from the water, there's some serious work to be done to bring him back. Part 1 of 2, examining drowning resuscitation. | |||
| Sieve Extraction on the Rio Topo | 17 Jan 2023 | 00:28:29 | |
A paddler clings for his life to a watery perch while his group desperately tries to reach him in the Ecuadorian jungle. | |||
| The Safety Break Trailer | 11 Dec 2022 | 00:02:25 | |
Welcome to The Safety Break, the whitewater rescue podcast. Full episodes coming soon... | |||