How do we prepare our students for the test?
Coaches helped learners to understand the test’s requirement, ranging from pool entries, body orientation, underwater skills, swimming strokes and survival skills. During the test, our students are confident and able to perform the following:
- Compact Jump
- Float or Thread water for 50 seconds
- Dive down and swim through 2 hoops in 1 breath
- Executing Freestyle, Breaststroke, Backstroke and Survival backstroke.
- Putting on the Personal Floatation Device(PFD) and Swim in it
All of these skills will be tested in order to be deemed competent.
For Stage 4, instead of a compact jump, the client would be required to perform a straddle jump while keeping their head afloat at all times. An additional component will be tested which is to call, wave for help and retrieve a floatation device that is thrown to him/her.
