The goal is to build confidence and independence in the water while learning essential water safety, including safe entry/exit, movement skills, and deep-end awareness.
Entries & Exits
Sculling & Body Orientation
Underwater Skills
Movement/Swimming/Strokes
Survival & Activity skills
Knowledge
Entries & Exits
Slide-in entry
Exit using ladder and from pool edge
Sculling & Body Orientation
Front float (mushroom or jellyfish), 5 seconds, recover to a standing position
Back float, 5 seconds, recover to a standing position
Underwater Skills
Submerge in waist-deep (student’s) water, open eyes and blow bubbles
Movement/Swimming/Strokes
Movement on front 10m (alternating arms & legs and/or simultaneous arms and legs)
Movement on back 5m (alternating arms & legs and/or simultaneous arms and legs)
Survival & Activity skills
Signal distress and call for help
Grasp a floatation aid and float with it for 10 seconds then move (with the float) to the pool’s edge and exit safely from water
Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate: Correctly fit a PFD, jump into the water, float for 30 seconds and then climb out of deep-water
Knowledge
Principles of Personal Safety and Survival
Environmental Awareness
Health Awareness
Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques
Rescues
Assessment
With or without googles
Without googles
With or without googles
Enter water with slide-in entry
Swim on back 5m and recover
Submerge head in water, open eyes, blow bubbles, and identify object on pool floor
Perform front float for 5 sec and recovers
Perform back float for 5 sec and recovers
Swim 10m
Signal distress and call for help
Grasp float and float fo 10 sec
Move to pool’s edge (with float)
Exit using ladder/climb out from pool edge
Without googles
Dress in swimwear, t-shirt and short:
Correctly fit a PFD, jump into water, float for 30 sec and safely climb out of water