This week was our final swimming session of the term. We had combined groups and wore life jackets. We have been learning about how we could stay alive in the deep sea with groups of people and/or alone.
We first had worn our life jackets and entered the pool safely. We first swam to the the end of the pool. Then we had got into small groups and made a chain with our life jackets. We had to hold someones life jacket where there shoulder is. The person at the end of the chain was helping make everybody move and the other end of the chain was the director who moved around to different places. This was to learn how to stick together in deep water.
Then we had got into small groups, we all huddled each other forming a circle. This helped with keeping everyone warm, if somebody was injured or old they'd go into the middle of the circle so everyone can keep the person old/injured warm and each other.
HELP
After that James had told us about HELP. HELP is not just a word it is also an acronym. HELP stands for:
Heat
Escape
Lessening
Position
Next we had to dive with our life jackets and touch the bottom of the pool. This was hard but if we put energy and strength into it we'd succeed. We had to dive down with our legs up towards the ceiling and our faces down. My idea was to dive like a mermaid. I had succeeded multiple times but in the start I was clueless.
Last but not least we've done something like pencil dives. We had to put our right hands across our chest to the other side of our life jackets and hold the back of our heads. Then we had to take one big step into the pool and drop.
Finally we all stood in a long line on the rail. Since it was the last day of swimming for the term we jumped off the rails and High Fived one of the swimming instructors.
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