Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Featured Badge - Swimmer

Can you swim? If you can, you may qualify for one of the Swimmer staged activity badges. There are five badges in this series. To qualify for Stage 1 (the easiest) here's what you need to be able to do:

1) Explain the safety rules about swimming and know where it is safe to swim locally. 2) Without using the steps, demonstrate a controlled entry into a swimming pool containing at least 1.5 metres of water. 3) Swim ten metres on your front. 4) Tread water for 30 seconds in a vertical position. 5) Using a buoyancy aid, float still in the water for 30 seconds. 6) Demonstrate your ability to retrieve an object from chest deep water. 7) Perform a push and glide on both your front and back. 8) Swim 25 metres without stopping. 9) Take part in an organised swimming activity e.g. the District Swimming Gala (see below).

You can get this badge as a Beaver, Cub, Scout or Explorer. If you're thinking that's easy-peasy check out the requirements for the more advanced Swimmer badges here.

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