Entries & Exits

• Develop advanced water entry skills through a controlled standing dive.

• Build confidence entering deeper water safely and with good body control.

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Sculling & Body Control

• Develop advanced floating and treading skills while creating and using a self-made flotation aid.

• Practise maintaining stability and staying afloat while managing the flotation aid.

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Underwater Skills

• Build confidence with underwater skills in deeper water.

• Practise a head-first surface dive and controlled underwater movement.

• Develop breath control and underwater awareness while swimming through submerged obstacles.

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Swimming & Movement

• Develop advanced swimming technique, endurance and speed across multiple strokes.

• Build stamina through longer-distance front crawl, breaststroke and backstroke.

• Further develop survival backstroke and sidestroke skills.

• Introduce butterfly to improve overall stroke ability, coordination and body control.

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Water Safety & Survival Skills

• Practise a sequence of advanced survival skills while wearing everyday clothing.

• Develop the ability to enter deep water, dive underwater and return safely to the surface.

• Build the ability to respond quickly before transitioning into slower survival swimming.

• Learn how to create and use an improvised flotation aid from clothing while staying afloat.

• Practise the Heat Escape Lessening Position (HELP) using the improvised float to conserve body heat.

• Develop the ability to swim with the self-made flotation aid and exit the water safely.