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Aquatics - 2013 Paddle Craft Safety

Aquatics - 2013 Swimming & Water Rescue

These are the hands-on, in/on water trainings for supervisors of any scouting swimming or boating activity.   They cover the skills needed to meet Safe Swim Defense and Safety Afloat policies applied at the unit level.  This is the training referenced in BSA’s Safe Swim Defense and Safety Afloat guidelines. The training consists of a classroom portion and water sessions.

During registration you are given a choice of taking either the Paddle Craft Safety course or the Swimming and Water Rescue course or both.

The Swimming and Water Rescue course has 4 major components:
1) BSA Swim test
2) Classroom session
3) Written test
4) In-the-water session

This is Components 2 and 3 of the course.  The Classroom session is 3 hours from 9 AM – Noon.
Prerequisite:  Safe Swim Defense (available online at https://myscouting.scouting.org/)

The Paddle Craft Safety course has 4 major components:
1) BSA Swim test
2) Classroom session
3) Written test
4) On/in-the-water boating session

This is Components 2 and 3 of the course.  The Classroom session is 3 hours starting at 1PM.
Prerequisite: Safety Afloat ((available online at https://myscouting.scouting.org/)
It is preferable that you have completed the BSA swim test prior to the course.

This training is open to any registered adult leader, Scout, Venturer, Sea Scout or Explorer who is age 15 or older.

Location:  Camp William B. Snyder, Haymarket VA, Hylton Training Center