WATER SMART
AIM: To introduce water safety knowledge and skills.
ROOKIE SURVIVOR
AIM: To provide the learner with safety and survival skills including basic techniques of clothed survival swimming, and to extend the range of swimming skills and personal fitness for survival.
DRY RESCUE
This award does not train or qualify a candidate to enter the water to perform a rescue.
AIM: To introduce land based water rescue techniques.
SUPER SURVIVOR
AIM: To further develop swimming skills, knowledge of safety, personal survival skills and endurance.
WADE RESCUE
This award does not train or qualify a candidate to perform a swimming rescue.
AIM: To introduce skills and knowledge of safe water rescue and survival.
ULTRA SURVIVOR
AIM: To develop a high level of swimming skills, endurance, personal survival skills, group strategies and knowledge of safety.
ACCOMPANIED RESCUE
Holders of this award are not trained or qualified to attempt any form of contact rescue in deep water.
AIM: To develop skills and knowledge of safe water rescue and survival.
