Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-200) and index.
No ice is safe ice -- Preplanning the surface ice rescue response -- The three levels of training -- Who responds to ice rescue incidents? -- Managing an operation -- Surface ice rescue equipment -- The rescue : awareness-level duties and responses -- The rescue : operational-level duties and responses -- The rescue : technician-level duties and responses -- Communication and line tending -- Special ice rescue situations -- Ice formation and types -- Cold stress and hypothermia -- The four processes of heat loss -- Heat and fluid loss -- How repeated exposure to cold affects us -- Cold stress, immersion, and fluid loss -- Chilblains, frostnip, frostbite, and freezing -- Drowning.