Team-building courses are a great way to boost morale and build cooperation and trust between team members.
Our one-day whale rescue course is team building at its best. It’s about people working together to save lives. What could be more motivating than that?
Through our course, your team will learn what to do in a stranding emergency, and use their whale rescue skills in our stranding simulation exercise. They’ll work together in teams to plan, solve problems and make decisions. And in saving Lionel (our life-size, inflatable whale), they’ll really put their communication and teamwork skills to the test.
Evidence shows that team-building is more effective when people share an experience that is real and works towards the greater good. Our whale rescue team-building course brings people together on the day and when it really counts, during a stranding emergency.
Cost and how to book
The total cost of our one day course is $3,400 (incl GST) with a maximum number of 16 participants.
Participants will receive lunch, and a comprehensive handbook to work form. After the course they’ll be issued with a Project Jonah lanyard, stranding cue card, marine mammal medic card and high vis vest. There is also the option for them to be added to our national database for future stranding call-outs.
Courses can be booked from Oct through to April, Monday to Friday. Bookings need to be made 4 weeks in advance. Please
contact us to check availability.
NB: an additional cost for courses outside Auckland may be applied to cover costs of travel and accommodation.
Course Content
Our one-day course is split into two parts.
The morning session is made up of short lectures and video presentations. During this session you’ll learn about the evolution and anatomy of dolphins and whales, their behaviour and social structures and some of reasons they may strand. We’ll examine stranding rescue techniques - what to do and what not to do, key roles and responsibilities at a stranding and personal health and safety.
In the afternoon we’ll hit the beach to put your new-found knowledge and skills to the test. We’ll practice basic first aid on our life size inflatable whale and get to grips with rescue equipment such as dolphin lifting mats and Project Jonah’s very own whale rescue pontoons.
By the end of the course you’ll be trained to:
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Assist in the rescue of stranded dolphins and whales
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Act as a role model to untrained rescuers
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