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 POTHOLE RESCUE
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Pothole Rescue, is an emergency service, made up from a group of experienced potholers, who are always at the ready to rescue trapped, injured or lost potholers.

Location
Pothole rescue groups tend to be found in areas where potholes are common, as a fast speedy response is necessary and often lifesaving, as is a local knowledge of the terrain and caves, to quickly identify the danger.

Age
Not an activity for children, As rescuers have to be experienced potholers prepared to risk their lives and able to make instant life saving decisions. Non potholing, surface backup members are also a very nessasary part of the team.

Ability
Necessary abilities to posses are; To be able and willing to respond to a call at any time, day or night. To be a competent potholer who would be an asset rather than a hindrance to the group. To be calm in life threatening situations.

Description
Pothole rescue is an activity that is very difficult to describe, as it is an activity of the unknown. Volunteers never know what a call out will involve, only that they can save life. A potholer who is lost, and cannot find their way back to the surface, Someone who has got stuck or trapped and has to be freed from the most inaccessible of location and in the most inhospitable of location, The rescue and recovery of an injured potholer who may have hypothermia.

Dedication
The biggest call on the rescue service is during or immediately after bad weather; carried out in freezing, flooded, dark, extremely confined and inaccessible spaces.

Potential
Surly no activity has a greater potential or satisfaction, than that of the rescue services, who's sole aim is to save life.

Closely Related Activities
Pothole rescue teams are closely related to, and made up from participants of many activities, Potholing 473, Caving 111, Spelunking 681, Climbing and Mountaineering 423, Mountain search and rescue 422, Medical and First Aid 311 / 314.

Cost
Pothole rescue is an expensive activity to maintain, that always responds to the best of its ability. Better, newer equipment are always needed and welcomed, to this end non active fund raisers are always welcomed into the groups. There is no monetary cost to being a member of of a pothole rescue group, as all finances are raised by charitable contribution.

Level of Demand
The table below shows the maximum levels of demand that this activity requires. NOTE: These are not entry levels or levels of requirement and has nothing to do with ability.

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