Elements and Performance Criteria
- Manoeuvre self in moving water.
- Assess situation, identify immediate hazards and risks and promptly determine best action.
- Set and maintain ferry angle to balance swimming against current.
- Use appropriate body position and defensive swimming techniques to negotiate moving water and river hazards.
- Use appropriate body position and aggressive swimming techniques to negotiate moving water and to free self from river hazards.
- Transition between defensive and aggressive swimming and maintain body position that avoids foot entrapment.
- Break in and out of eddies and cross a current to reach shore.
- Use direction and support aids provided by others to reach shore or rescue craft.
- Wade in moving water.
- Re-enter craft.