Viking School


The Viking School offers the possibility to qualify as a Rafting Guide. In addition to rafting, you will complete the SRT course, which is internationally recognized and required for all Rafting Guides. In the near future, we will expand the course to include Hovercraft piloting

Raft Guide Training (6 days)
Correct, lifting & carrying techniques, The principles of safety and rescue, Signals & communication in the river environment, Norwegian rescue services and medical/emergency contact numbers, Risk assessments in the working environment
Incident management, Legal considerations concerning a raft trip, Raft safety specifications, Equipment carried by a raft guide, Initial customer brief
Safety talk, Conducting pre-trip defensive & offensive swim training, Boarding a raft correctly whilst it is sitting in moving water, Boat handling skills, draw strokes, ry strokes, trimming, ferry gliding, checking and setting, eddy turns, negotiating waves, and surfing, flipping the raft, Throw-line rescues from a raft, Raft to swimmer rescue
Raft stopper & 'broach' rescues, Unconscious swimmer rescues; raft to swimmer, kayak to swimmer & swimmer to swimmer 


White Water Rescue (3 days)
Herefor you get a certificate calling you a "Whitewater Rescue Technician". This qualification is needed, if you like to work for us as a rafting guide. You have to pass this course. The course will be held somewhere in Norway be a certified "Whitewater Rescue Instructor".

The content is:

Rescuer safety, training and equipment, Water dynamics, Medical Considerations, Panic and survival, Dealing with family, bystanders and documentation, Communications,  Management, organization and size-up, Helicopter familiarization, On-scene safety orientations, Introduction to ropes, knots and technical gear, Anchors and basic tensioning systems, Basic swimming positions, Eddy catching/hopping, aggressive swimming, Supervised swim in a "hole", Swimming a line across the river, Foot and body entrapment/vertical pins, Aggressive swimming over a strainer, Throw bags, twice within 20 secs., Throw coils, twice within 20 secs., Tension diagonal, Shallow water crossings,  Contant rescues, 2 point boat and rope system, 4 point boat and rope system, Watercraft familiarization (specify), Unpinning boats, Tyrolean boat on tether, Rescue problem

Climbing (2 days)
Two days of instructions to be a climbing guide. We will train you in the indoor hall and outdoor at the rocks. You will learn how to belay and how to climb yourself, so you can give your experience to the customers.

High Rope Course (2 days)
Another two days of training for the one-and-only HRC in Southern Norway. You will be trained in active and passive skills and learn how to control and guarantee the safety of the area.

First Aid (1 day)
Basic first aid. Learn how to help injured customers and know how to call for professional help. This day also includes preparing your own First-Aid-Kit.

Costs incl. overnight

White Water Rescue + Training  9 days NOK 4.500,00 
Climbing + High Rope Course  4 days NOK 2.000,00 
First Aid  1 day NOK 1.150,00 

Usualy we start in springtime with alle courses. Minimum pax. are 5.

Send your CV /Resume with hobbies and spoken languages  

by email to: Mario Juric
by post to:  Viking Adventures Norway, Mario Juric, Evjemoen, 4735 Evje, Norway
All applications must be in English.