Safety is the number one priority at Three Rivers Rowing Association. Below are links to resources and guidelines that everyone in the campus community should refer to often.

 

Please remember that the TRRA rules require anyone who is responsible for the safety or steering of a boat (coaches, scullers, kayakers, steers-people and coxswains) to review this material twice per year.

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The Safety Committee will be working on refinements to the videos in the future, so please recognize that the format is a work in progress. Coaches, please take the time to share the videos with your coxswains (and/or your entire team).

 

After viewing the video, please complete the brief survey, which replaces the old sign-in sheet.

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Safety Matrix Data:

• Hourly temperature and wind speed

• Water flow

• Water temperature

• water.noaa - Stage and flow (Sharpsburg)

• water.noaa - Stage and flow (Pittsburgh Point)

 

Safety Matrix - Full View

• Rowing Matrix 

• Rowing Mini-Matrix (Log-Book Scullers/Pair)​

• Paddling Matrix: 20-Person Dragon Boat

• Paddling Matrix:  10-Person Dragon Boat

• Paddling Matrix:  Out-Rigger Canoe/Kayak

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Safety Resources:
USRowing Safety Video (Mandatory)

TRRA Course Flyover

TRRA Safety Protocols and Procedures

Dragon Boat Guideline for Emergencies

Air Quality Monitor

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Flood Levels in relationship to the bays at the Washington's Landing Campus:

• 23 feet gets into the lower bays (beneath the parking lot).

• 26 feet gets to approximately the first rack in the lower bays and breaches the pavement in front of the upper bays (college bays & sculling bay).

• 27 feet gets to the entrance of the upper bays.

• 28 feet breaches the upper bays.

A reminder regarding lights:

If you plan to row before or after sunset, the new light rule requires bow and stern lights to be affixed to the shell. A spotlight must also be carried in any coaching launch in the dark.
 

Cold water reminder:
Please use caution as you take to the water early in the season, as the cold, fast-moving waters of Spring present special safety challenges.

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