SwimSafer Stage 3

Principles of personal survival as well as basic rescue skills are taught. Skills include sculling, underwater skills and the use of personal flotation device. Goal is to achieve 50m of continuous swimming.

What you will learn

Entries & Exits

  • Perform a stride/straddle entry

Sculling & Body Orientation

  • Scull head first on the back, 5m

  • Scull, float or tread water for 1 minute (incorporated in survival & Activity Skills)

Underwater Skills

  • In chest-deep water swim through hoops on pool bottom 2 metres apart.

Movement/Swimming/Strokes

  • Swim 50 metres continuously

  • 25m using either Front-Crawl (with side breathing) or Breaststroke

  • 25m using either Backstroke or Survival Backstroke

Survival & Activity skills

  • Scull, float or tread water for 1 minute

  • Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate:

    1. Swim 25m to a PFD

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

Knowledge

  • Rules of behaviour in, on or near the water

  • Water safety knowledge at a swimming pool

  • Water safety rules in various aquatic environments

  • Principles of personal safety and survival

  • Principles of watercraft safety

  • Recognising an Emergency

  • Principles when performing a rescue

SwimSafer 2.0 Stage 3 Test Crteria

Swim:

  • Swim 25m on front crawl or breaststroke

  • Swim 25m on backstroke

Survival Sequence 3A: (w/o goggles)

  1. Stride/Straddle jump in deep water

  2. Swim 25m Breaststroke

  3. Swim 25m Survival Backstroke

  4. Scull head first on back for 5m and recover

  5. Scull, float and tread water for 50sec

  6. In chest-deep water, perform feet-first surface dive

  7. Swim through hoops, place 2m apart using flutter/dolphin kick

  8. Resurface and exit pool safely

Survival Sequence 3B: (w/o goggles)

  1. Dressed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt demonstrate:

    • Swim25m using survival backstroke or breaststroke to a PFD

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