Wero Trip

Yesterday students from LS2 went on a trip to the Vector Wero Whitewater Rafting Park, as we walked through the entrance there was a huge artificial lake with rapids and something they called the pump drop which was the highest and the deepest whitewater rafting drop in New Zealand. When we got in we were waiting for the guides to set up the rafts, while we were waiting one of the guides took us to watch two videos, one was the Legend Of Maui and how New Zealand came to be and the safety video. After that we all put on wet suits on, a jacket, wet boots, and a life jacket then we jumped into groups of six and juped in a raft. The first activity we did was river crossing, our insrtructor taught us the safest and not safest ways to cross a river then we tried it ourselves, when we crossed it there was a rapid and it was pretty strong but we were put into groups of three out of the group of six and crossed it by making a triangle because it is the strongest shape. There was a technique we used and it was to grab the person in front by the shoulders of his or her life jacket and lean foward to help keep the person in front up, and we also went slow, grabing people by the shoulders of thier life jacket is a good technique of pulling someone back in if they fall out of the raft but when you pull them back up push them back down under the water because it will be easier because the life jacket will float back up.
The next activity was the rafting part, we started off on a escalator type thing but for kyaks then we went down and did a 360 turn going backwards towards the start of the artificial rapid river, and this time it was deep. The last activity we did was one of the best activitys was jumping in and floating down the fast rapid river, kind of like the lazy river but fast. Yesterday our instructor taught us about water safety and the dangers of a river, Yesterday I learnt how to pull someone back into the raft by using the shoulder parts of the life jacket, and I also learnt how to cross a river properly by knowing the signs. here are some signs, if the water in a river is above your waist it is to deep to cross, if you chuck something in the river and you have to jog after it the river is not safe to cross or jump in because of the rapid stream of water rushing through.