Definitions
Professional Sea Kayak Guide:
A person who assumes a leadership or assistant leadership role on a sea kayak outing in a marine environment for other persons who have paid for the experience and who assume that the leadership is part of this experience. These experiences include all sea kayak outings which venture further than four miles from the kayak launch site and/or are overnight or longer.
Full Guide:
A person who has passed the ACSKG guides exam and is qualified to be a Professional Sea Kayak Guide in Class I and II Canadian Coastal Waters (CCW). See alternate Transfer Method
Class III Full Guide
is a Professional Sea Kayak Guide qualified for all CCW.
Assistant Guide
A person who has taken an ACSKG endorsed Leadership Course and has been recommended in writing by the course instructor(s) and is therefore eligible to assist an ACSKG Certified Full Guide.
Canadian Coastal Waters Classification:
A classification of coastal waters that considers topography, bathymetry, fetch, tidal action, marine traffic and any local anomalies that would affect sea kayaking safety. Areas are identified on a Master Classification Map developed by the ACSKG.
Classifications are:
CLASS I
Protected Waters
CLASS II
Open Coastal Waters
CLASS III
Stretches of very high energy coastline with minimal refuge
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