top of page

Gold Award

Students will be required to perform a variety of strokes with efficiency over 400 metres within a given time frame for each stroke. Personal survival skills like making use of clothing to make a personal floatation device and swimming with them, putting on a life jacket in water and demonstrating the Heat Escape Lessening Posture technique will be taught.

SwimSafer-Gold-300x214.jpg

Takeaways

Entries and Exits

  • Standing Dive

Sculling & Body Orientation

  • Scull, float or tread for whilst making a self-made float within 5 min (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills) 

Underwater Skills

  • In at least 1.8m deep water, perform head-first surface dive (tuck or pike) and perform ear equalisation, if necessary and swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m 

Movement / Swimming / Strokes

      Swim: ​

  • 100m Front Crawl (within 3:00 min) 

  • 100m Breaststroke (within 4:00 min) 

  • 100 m Backstroke (within 3:20 min) 

  • 50m Survival Backstroke 

  • 50m Sidestroke 

  • 15m Butterfly 

Survival & Activity Skills

Dressed in swimwear, long pants and t-shirt demonstrate the following sequence: ​

  • Enter deep water using a compact jump 

  • Perform a head-first surface dive to a depth of at least 1.8m (and perform ear equalisation, if necessary) 

  • Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m and resurface 

  • Swim 45m quickly using front crawl 

  • Then, swim slowly for a further 50m using any preferred survival swim stroke 

  • Remove pants in deep water and make a float with it while treading water within 5 min 

  • Demonstrate the Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) technique with the self-made float for 1 min 

  • Then swim 25m with the self-made float and climb out of the water 

Knowledge

  • Principles of Personal Safety and Survival.

  • Environmental Awareness.

  • Health Awareness.

  • Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques.

  • Rescues.

Pictures and Information are not owned by Wild Splash*

bottom of page