Swimmer I
Complete the Red Cross Swim Level I - Water Exploration or the following:
- Learn seven safety rules for swimmers.
- Fully submerge face for three seconds.
- Experience buoyancy. Bounce up and down in chest-deep water, maintaining an upright position for ten bounces.
- Demonstrate support float on front and back.
- Demonstrate bubble-blowing.
- Enter and exit water independently using ladder, ramp, steps, or side of pool.
- Walk five yards in chest-deep water maintaining balance or move five yards along the side of the pool maintaining contact with the wall.
- Demonstrate kicking on front and back.
- Walk five yards in chest-deep water using alternating arm strokes.
- Discuss the importance of following rules.
- Discuss the role of safety personnel and EMS.
- Demonstrate reaching assists without equipment.
- Demonstrate how to relieve a cramp.
- Demonstrate wearing a life jacket on desk and enter shallow water.
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