SwimSafer Stage 6 (Gold)

Advance Personal Survival & Swimming Skill Proficiency

Objective:
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.

 

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Equipments to Prepare

Shirt

Long Pants

Stage 6 Practical Test Sequence

Swim:
Swim (use standing dive entry for FR, BR):

  • 100m front crawl (within 3:00 min)
  • 100m breaststroke (within 4:00 min)
  • 100 m backstroke (within 3:20 min)
  • 50m survival backstroke
  • 50m sidestroke
  • 15m butterfly

Gold Sequence: (w/o goggles)
Dressed in swimwear, long pants and t-shirt demonstrate the following sequence: 

  • Enter deep water using a compact jump
  • Perform a headfirst 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
  • Then, 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 water

Entries & Exits

  • Standing dive.

Sculling & Body Orientation

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

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.

Movement/Swimming/Strokes

Swim:

  • 100m Front Crawl (within 3:00 min)
  • 100m Breaststroke (within 4:00 min)
  • 100 m Backstroke (within 3:20 min)
  • 50m Survival Backstroke
  • 50m Sidestroke.
  • 15m Butterfly.

Survival and Activity Skills

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

  • Enter deep water using a compact jump.
  • Perform a headfirst 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 water.

Rescue Skills

  • NIL

Knowledge

  • Principles of Personal Safety and Survival.
  • Environmental Awareness.
  • Health Awareness.
  • Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques.
  • Rescues.

Professional!

Coaches are very professional and ensures the kids are well taken care of! Glad to have enrolled with them!

Tang Sen / Google

Dedicated!

Sttitute is the to-go school for swimming classes. I’m immensely grateful to the fantastic coaches who coached my girl through the years and weathered the storms of high PSI and Covid. The swimming school is dedicated to bringing out the best in our kids with their quality teaching and administrative support.

Wei Ling / Google

Fun!

We are absolutely thrilled with our child’s fantastic achievements in the recent Stage 3 SwimSafer test! The progress has been exceptional, and we owe it all to the dedicated coaching team at Sttitude Swim School.

Chee Seng / Google

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