Entries & Exits
Sculling & Body Orientation
Underwater Skills
Movement/Swimming/Strokes
Survival & Activity skills
Knowledge
Entries & Exits
- Demonstrate a 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 3:00min)
100m Breaststroke (within 4:00min)
100m Backstroke (within 3:20min)
50m Survival Backstroke
50m Survival Sidestroke
15m Butterfly
Survival & Activity skills
- Dressed in swimwear, longpants and t-shirt demonstrate:
1. Enter deep water using a compact jump
2. Perform a head first surface dive, to a depth of at least 1.8m (and perform ear equalisation, if necessary)
3. Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m and resurface
4. Swim 45m quickly using front crawl
5. Swim slowly for a further 50m using any preferred survival swim stroke
6. Remove pants in deep water and make a float with it while treading water within 5 min
7. Demonstrate Heat Escape Lessening Posture (H.E.L.P.) technique with the self-made float for 1 min
8. Then swim 25m with 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
