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SwimSafer Stage 3

Entry skills such as the stride jump will be taught. Skills include sculling, underwater skills and putting on a personal flotation device (PFD) whilst in water and swimming with it. One of the goals is to achieve 50 metres of continuous swimming.

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Takeaways

Entries and Exits

  • Stride / straddle entry

Sculling & Body Orientation

  • Scull headfirst on back, 5m

  • Scull, float or tread for 50 sec (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills)

Underwater Skills

  • Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 2m

Movement / Swimming / Strokes

     Swim 50m continuously: ​

  • 25m front crawl, and 25m backstroke

  • Swim 25m Breaststroke and 25m Survival Backstroke (performed in Sequence in 3A)

Survival & Activity Skills

  • Scull, float or tread for 50 sec.​

 

       Dressed in swimwear, shorts, and

       t-shirt demonstrate:

  • Swim 25m using survival backstroke or survival breaststroke to a PFD

  • Correctly fit a PFD in water, swim 50m with PFD, then climb out of the water

Knowledge

  • Principles of Personal Safety and Survival.

  • Environmental Awareness.

  • Health Awareness.

  • Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques.

  • Rescues.

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