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SwimSafer Gold/Stage 6

Advanced Personal Water Survival & 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 flotation device and swimming with them, putting on a life jacket in water and demonstrating the Heat Escape Lessening Posture technique will be taught.
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Stage 6 Test Criteria

Entries & Exits

Standing dive.

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Sculling & Body Orientation

  1. Scull, float or tread for whilst making a self-made float within 5 min.

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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 without goggles.

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Movement / Swimming / Strokes

  1. 100m Front Crawl (within 3:00 min).

  2. 100m Breaststroke (within 4:00 min).

  3. 100 m Backstroke (within 3:20 min).

  4. 50m Survival Backstroke.

  5. 50m Sidestroke.

  6. 15m Butterfly.

 

Survival & Activity Skills

Dressed in swimwear, long pants and t-shirt demonstrate:

  1. Enter deep water using a compact jump.

  2. Perform a headfirst 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. Then, 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 the self-made float and climb out of the water.

 

Knowledge

  1. Principles of Personal Safety and Survival.

  2. Environmental Awareness.

  3. Health Awareness.

  4. Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques.

  5. Rescues.

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