SRS Experience

Jay Danis... Attitude!

Jay Danis is a professional rockclimbing instructor with many years experience in climbing and rope rescue. He has climbed in the British Columbia Coast Mountains, The Rockies, and Quebec, as well as Ontario, New York State, and California. He is an inventor of new knots, a score of rope systems and task specific stretcher rigs for rescue.

A founding member of the International Society for Fall Protection, he has authored several articles on this subject. He has served in a variety of ways as a consultant to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and other Law Enforcement Agencies.

Mr. Danis is frequently consulted regarding the character of knots found at crime scenes. He currently serves as a Rope Rescue Advisor in British Columbia.

In specific emergencies he is the one often called upon when "the fertilizer hits the fan" so to speak. Be it a hostage rescue, suicide jumper, or to run a stealth track in the bush as a 'Pathfinder', his skills are in demand.

Knotting Experience

41 years of knotting
Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Lifeguarding, Camping, Fishing, Canoeing
Canadian Forces National Survival Course
Knotting Puzzles
Rockclimbing and Mountaineering
Volunteer Firefighter Training
Rope Rescues
Confined Space Rescues
Industrial safety Rigging
Criminal Investigations

Surveillance

Night vision scopes and head mounted night vision optics, (2nd and 3rd generation)
Sonic void detection units
Infra-red detection devices
Long range refraction and reflector telescopes
Heavy and man - portable surface radar

Firearms

Military and civilian arms

Mountain Guide, Rockclimbing Instructor, Fall Protection Systems, Rope Rescue Systems (industrial urban and wilderness), Adult and Child Wilderness Survival Instructor, Recommendation and endorsement, for the purchase and correct use of all types of outdoor equipment and sporting goods.

He devised:

Semi Auto Belayed Multi Point Force Distributing Anchors

Rotational Stretcher/ Litter Bridle

D-RAD Stretcher Attendants Safety Attachment

MK I, MK II, MK III, Police Quick Release Rappel Device, adopted by RCMP for tactical rope operations.

Authored:

Urban Rope Entry Systems, Shadowgraphics Publishing, Victoria, B.C., First Ed - 1994, 2nd 1997, 3rd 2000

Cliff and Aerial Rescue, R Chisnall, J.Danis, Habayim Publishing, 1992, Victoria B.C.

Rope Rescue Innovations 2000, J.Danis, Habayim Publishing, 2000, Victoria B.C.

Knots For The 90's, (industrial paper), Habayim Publishing, Victoria B.C.

Rope Rescue Instructors’ Curriculum and Lesson Plan, SAR BC Publisher

Definitive Knot Users List, (manuscript in progress), Habayim Publishing, Victoria B.C.

Charlie Russell and the Horsehead Nebula, (fiction), Habayim Publishing, Victoria B.C.

The McKenzie Saga, tales of the RCMP, (fiction), Habayim Publishing, Victoria B.C.

Publications:

Personal Safety Rigging in Industry 1987, (circular)
Working Knots 1991, (circular)
ORCA Newsletters, technical safety articles, Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Recreation
The Prospector Newspaper, Napanee, Ont. (The Almost Great Outdoorsman Column)

Referenced in Publications:

The Forensic Analysis of Knots and Ligatures, (R Chisnall)

Consulted by the following Law Enforcement Agencies (1985-present)

Ontario Provincial Police
Victoria City Police, 2000
Saanich Police, 2000
RCMP Victoria Sub Div HQ
RCMP Campbell River Detach
Calgary Police Service, Alberta, 2000
Esquimalt Police Services, 2000
Sugarland County Sheriff's Department, Texas

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