Welcome to K38 Australia

Originally founded by Shawn Alladio who has developed K38 from the beginning training civilians, tow surfing operators, US Law Enforcement agencies and Military specialist teams,  as passionate PWC riders in Australia we aim to promote the positive aspects that PWC’s can have in society.  K38 Water Safety Australia was founded in 2011 by David, Sally and Simon , we are based on the Sunshine Coast of Australia and are “officially” licensed as K38 affiliates of K38 United States for Australia/New Zealand.

2011 is a huge building year for K38 Water Safety Australia with a focus on building strong working relationships with PWC clubs, Maritime agencies, Aquatic event organisers (such as paddling events) to promote event safety/rescue skills. K38 strongly promote we all play in the sun with a dedicated incident team for such sanctioned events. Dave and Simon will also attending two weeks of advanced RWC (Rescue Water Craft – PWC used for a rescue operation) training in the United States to be able to share this skills with like minded people and organisations in Australia/New Zealand. We are also attending the World Wide K38 Summit in California in October 2011 as we all strive towards global safety standards and responsibilities with PWC’s.

We are currently working on bringing a number of PWC advanced courses to Australia/New Zealand which will be over and above any other boat/PWC license you may have, once we announce these courses if you don’t already hold a Recreational Marine Boat license and PWC license you cannot enroll in these courses.  These courses will include subjects (and lots of practical exercises) like;

• Surf Zone skills – negotiating waves, tow in surfing code of conduct.
• Rescue Skills with and without a approved rescue board
• Capsizing and reboard both single/double/triple operator
• PWC general maintenance and troubleshooting
• Intake cleaning drills
• Small vessal towing
• Emergency Procedures
• Event Safety/planning and risk mitigation
• Communications, verbally, hand and Radio (must have a Marine Radio License)
• Understanding the environment, planning for conditions

We will release the training schedule in July 2011 and will have our first 3 day course based on the Sunshine Coast of Australia early September 2011. If you have any questions re the training, how K38 can assist in an event or increase PWC skills please contact us at  info@k38australia.com
K38 Water Safety Australia team