Water Safety & Rescue

Service Description

This is where you, the parent, gains confidence in your child’s water survival abilities and knowledge, and this is where they become Water Safe! Water Smart! kids. This course will challenge your off-spring both intellectually and physically. We start the day off in a workbook, which they will keep as a reference guide. The first part is focused on water safety, where we cover the breakdown of sunscreens, hair, eyes and skin protection. We move into our approach of different bodies of water, covering swimming pools, rivers, lakes, boating and the ocean, and discuss the potential dangers of different bodies of water, and how to better their chances of survival in a volatile situation. We discuss different kinds of drownings, what they look like and problem solve how they could have been prevented, etc… We learn about spinal cord injuries and how prevalent they are around water, as well as how to prevent one from happening to ourselves. Part two focuses on water rescue, which includes identifying two different kinds of drowning victims and how to approach each scenario while maintaining their own safety. We also cover Dry drowning and Secondary drowning. After starting in the workbook, we move into the pool, where we first work on our strokes each day, and then take what we have discussed in the workbook and put them to the physical test in the water. Each participant earns points throughout the week (M-F), and there is a written test on Friday. The top scorer will be acknowledged, and be given the opportunity to volunteer as my assistant the following summer (for Water Safety & Rescue) with a gift of $100.00 towards their future! This course is offered once each summer. Congratulations goes out to Brandon Baptiste for his top score last summer! Prerequisite: Must be a Dolphin swimmer and a ‘beginning 3rd grade reader’. All Water Safety & Rescue participants are given the opportunity to become CPR Certified at a discounted rate of $65.00 following Water Safety & Rescue. This certification is good for 2 years. Your child must be able to compress deep enough in order to be certified, and a date will be set up at the time of their WS&R course.