SwimSafer Stage 6 Gold

ADVANCE PERSONAL SURVIVAL AND SWIMMING SKILL PROFICIENCY

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.

Test Criteria

SwimSafer Stage 5 Silver

ENTRIES & EXITS

• Demonstrate a standing dive entry into deep water (at least 1.8m depth)

SCULLING & BODY ORIENTATION

• Scull, float or tread for 5 min (incorporated in Survival & Activity Skills)

UNDERWATER SKILLS

• In 1.8m deep water, perform head-first surface dive (tuck or pike) and perform ear equalisation, if necessary

• Swim through hoops on pool bottom for 5m

MOVEMENT / SWIMMING / STROKES

• 100m Front-Crawl (within 3:00 min)

• 100m Breaststroke (within 4:00 min)

• 100m Backstroke (within 3:20 min)

• 50m Survival Backstroke

• 50m Sidestroke

• 15m Butterfly

SURVIVAL & ACTIVITY SKILLS (WITHOUT GOGGLES)

Dressed in swimwear, long pants, t-shirt, perform 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 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 pool

KNOWLEDGE

Principles of Personal Safety and Survival