Bronze Star (10-12 hr.): excellent preparation
for success in Bronze Medallion. Participants develop
problem-solving and decision-making skills individually and in
partners. Candidates learn CPR and develop the lifesaving skills
needed to be their own lifeguard. Includes a timed 400 m swim.
Prerequisite: None (Swim Patrol experience
recommended.)
Evaluation & certification: Current
Lifesaving Instructors evaluate all items and certify candidates.
The Lifesaving Society deems its certifications to be "current" for
24 months from the certification date.
Candidate recognition: Bronze Star medal,
Bronze Star Award crest, certification card.
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At-a-glance
- In deep water, demonstrate deep and shallow head- and
foot-first entries from a height (max. 1 m).
- Backward roll entry wearing shirt and long pants. Swim 10-15 m
or yd. remove and inflate pants. Form a huddle for 1 min. with 2 or
more others.
- Demonstrate ability to recover an unconscious victim from deep
water to the surface & carry to nearest point of safety.
- Demonstrate a 5 m head-up approach into a head-first surface
dive to retrieve object from a depth between 2 and 3 m or yd.
Surface with object and eggbeater kick 5 m or yd. to start
point.
- Demonstrate a 25 m or yd. head-up approach into a foot-first
surface dive to retrieve a 4.5 kg (10 lb.) object (maximum depth 2
m). Carry object to point of entry. Exit water and demonstrate
rescue breathing on a manikin.
- Support a 4.5 kg (10 lb.) object at the surface for 3 minutes
or better in deep water.
- Wearing a shoulder loop and line, swim a 100m individual medley
in 3 min. or less (100 yd. in 2:40 min.) as follows: 25 m or yd.
each of lifesaving kick, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
- Swim 400 m in 12 min. or better (400 yd. in 10:45 min.) using
freestyle or any combination of strokes of the swimmer's
choice.
- Demonstrate ability to find and count pulse and respiration
rates on a partner. Demonstrate ability to find and count own
pulse.
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- Demonstrate single-rescuer CPR on a manikin.
- Demonstrate the immobilization of a possible spinal-injured
breathing victim on land.
- a) Demonstrate ability to simulate in the water the appearance
of a weak swimmer, a non-swimmer, an unconscious victim and an
injured victim. b) Demonstrate ability to recognize the difference
between a weak swimmer and a non-swimmer; and to recognize an
unconscious and an injured victim.
- Demonstrate ability to perform and to recognize 3 different
hand signals.
- Walk the perimeter of the aquatic facility to locate a
submerged object within 30 sec.
- Search an area with both shallow and deep water (max. depth 2
m).
- With a partner, perform a low-risk rescue of a non-swimmer or a
victim with external bleeding. Assist victim to safety showing
ability to avoid direct contact. Perform appropriate follow-up
procedures, including treatment for shock.
- Rescue an unconscious, non-breathing victim in deep water.
Return with the victim to the beach, dock or poolside. Untrained
bystanders assist in victim removal. Perform appropriate follow-up
procedures, including treatment for shock.
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