This week the yr 5 students had there 4th session of swimming. James, Cameron and Kelly has been talking to us about ocean and river swimming safety. There are signals for where you are allowed to swim in the ocean. They are Red and Yellow flags. They are there so you know what length of swimming you can swim up to. There is also something that is Red and yellow. That is the lifeguards. If you have been told off by a lifeguard that is because they are concerned about your safety. Lifeguards are there to save lives in pools or beaches.
Next James was talking about rips. A rip is a patch of smooth water. they look like a safe place to swim in but they really aren't. If you swim in a rip in the beach it will pull you out to the ocean and you could drown. You shouldn't try to fight it because you are going to drown more and more and could possibly die. The good thing about the rip is the current. If you get caught if in one it make you move faster. When you move with the rip you have to swim diagonally to get to the edge and it will make it easier to get up and out. When you are in a river and you get caught in a rip you should flow with the current but you should also swim diagonally to the edge. The way you should swim is feet first and head up and scull facing the ceiling. The reason you should put your feet together is because if you hit into a rock with your legs open you could get stuck. If you put your feet together then you could bounce off the rocks.
When you are drowning you have to put your hand straight up and not move it so the lifeguards know to save you. If you wave one hand that means a Hi, if you wave two times that means "I'm having fun", if you put your hand straight up then that means a come and rescue me. When you put your hand straight up then you yell "HELP!!" as loud as you can until someone can hear you. They always say swim with an adult but there is more to that. The adult must know how to swim. If someone drowns you should not go up to them because they are panicked and when you try to get them they will jump on you and try to get air and will make you drown, if they are drowning you it is not there fault, they are panicked. The right thing you should do is get something like a stick, Log anything to pull them out.
After this we had got into our swimming session. First we went over sculling. Our instructor was Cameron. We learnt to scull feet first and normally sculling. You scull to survive in open water, moving water, also a river. So we had to first scull normally to the other platform and back. After that we had to scull feet first. We all had got the hang off it. After we all did our sculling then we had a race 2 people at a time then we thanked cameron and left the pools.
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