Refinement Skills

SwimSafer Silver Entries & Exits

• Demonstrate a dive entry (crouching)

SwimSafer Silver Sculling & Body Orientation

• Keep face above the water for 60 seconds sculling with hands only

SwimSafer Silver Underwater skills

• In 1.5m of water depth swim through hoops on pool bottom 3 metres apart

SwimSafer Silver Movement / Swimming / Strokes

• Swim 200 m continuously

• 50m Front Crawl

• 50m Breaststroke

• 50m Backstroke

• 50m Survival Backstroke or Sidestroke

• Efficient stroke techniques must be used

Swim Safer Silver Survival & Activity skills

• Dressed in swimwear, long pants and long sleeved shirt, perform the following as a continuous sequence

• Enter deep water using an appropriate entry method

• Submerge feet first, swim underwater for 3 meters

• Resurface scull, float or tread water for 3 minutes waving for help intermittently

• Clothing may be removed

• Correctly fit a PFD while treading water and then swim 25 metres and climb out of the water

Swim Safer Silver Rescue Skills

• Using a buoyant aid, accompanied (noncontact) rescue of a person 15m from safety

Swim Safer Silver Knowledge

• Recognising an Emergency