Aquatic Leadership Programs

Rookie Patrol

Swimmers continue stroke development and learn lifesaving skills including a 25-metre obstacle swim, 15-metre object carry, and basic first aid skills like assessment of a conscious victim, contacting 9-1-1, and treatment of bleeding. Fitness requirements are a 100-metre timed swim and a 350-metre workout.

Pre-requisite: completed Swim Kids 8

Ranger Patrol

Swimmers improve their strokes (75-metres of each); learn lifesaving skills like completing a lifesaving medley, timed object support, rescue with a buoyant aid, first aid of an unconscious victim, treatment of shock and obstructed airways.

Pre-requisite: completed Swim Kids 8

Bronze Star

This course prepares you for Bronze Medallion. Swimmers develop problem-solving and decision-making skills individually and in partners. Candidates learn C.P.R. and develop numerous lifesaving skills. A 400-metre timed swim is also included.

Pre-requisite: completed Swim Kids 8

Bronze Medallion

Students will learn in both a pool and classroom about the lifesaving principles of judgment, knowledge, skill, and fitness through land and water rescues, and swim 500 metres in 15 minutes. This includes the Emergency First Aid course and 100% attendance is required. There will be a practical exam at the end of the course.

Pre-requisite: 13 years of age or completed Bronze Star

Bronze Cross

In this course, students will learn the difference between a lifesaver and a lifeguard and introduces more challenging and advanced lifesaving training including a fitness swim of 600-metres in 18 minutes. This course also includes Standard First Aid. 100% attendance is required.

Pre-requisites: Bronze Medallion and Emergency First Aid certifications

Standard First Aid and C.P.R. ‘C'

This course teaches skills like legal implications of first aid treatment, spinal injuries, wounds and bleeding, heat and cold injuries, bone and joint injuries, abdominal and chest injuries, burns, and medical conditions – seizures, diabetes, and cardiac and respiratory conditions along with C.P.R for infant, child and adult and using an automated external defibrillator. 100% attendance is required.

Red Cross Water Safety Instructor – step one

This is the first step for you to become a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor. This class includes a parent meeting, a stroke and skill screening, and provides you with the information on how to complete your 20-hour online course and the teaching experience hours.

Pre-requisites: 15 years of age and Bronze Cross certifications

Red Cross Water Safety Instructor – step two

In this stage, Instructors will work on your strokes and skills to ensure they are at a Swim Kids 10 standard. Swimmers must complete a stroke and skill evaluation successfully in order to progress to the next step.

Red Cross Water Safety Instructor – step three

This is the final step to becoming a Red Cross Swimming and Water Safety Instructor. During this pool and classroom course will build on the lessons learned from the online course and the teaching experience. You will further develop your leadership, teaching skills, planning, communication, safety supervision, and instructional emergency response skills. 100% attendance is mandatory.

National Lifeguard Course

This is a very intense course and upon completion, candidates will be certified lifeguards. Fitness components in this course include lifting a 20-pound brick off the bottom of the pool, towing, carrying and removing victims for the pool, timed rescues, and underwater swim, and a timed 400-metre swim in 10 minutes or better. 100% attendance is mandatory.

Pre-requisites: 16 years of age, Bronze Cross, and Standard First Aid certifications

Lifesaving Instructor

This course prepares you to organize, plan, teach and evaluate lifesaving and first aid and C.P.R. skills. When complete, you will be eligible to teach the Swim Patrol, Bronze Star, Bronze Medallion, Emergency First Aid, and Bronze Cross levels.

Pre-requisites: 16 years of age and Bronze Cross certification

Lifesaving First Aid Instructor

This course provides you with the knowledge and resources to organize, plan, and deliver Lifesaving Society Standard First Aid and C.P.R. levels ‘A', ‘B', and ‘C'.

Pre-requisites: 18 years of age and Standard First Aid with C.P.R. ‘C' certification

Aquatic Supervisor Training

This course is for deck-level supervisory staff, provides knowledge and skills beyond the National Lifeguard certification and teaches candidates how to manage a safe aquatic environment.

Pre-requisites: National Lifeguard or Lifesaving Instructor and a minimum of 100 hours of experience in these role(s)

Lifesaving Examiner Course

The Examiner Course is the first step in the three-step process for you to be an Examiner for the Lifesaving Society and it prepares candidates to successfully apprentice as an Examiner.

Pre-requisites: Appropriate Instructor certification and matching level's teaching experience