A SPORTSG PROGRAMME

STAGE 2

Fundamental water skills. 25 metres.

SwimSafer Stage 2 is the second of 6 stages in Singapore's national water safety programme. Unassisted entries, sculling, feet-first surface dives and safety skills. The stage-end target is 25 metres of continuous swimming.

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Fundamental Water Skills

What students demonstrate

Stage 2 develops fundamental water skills. Students learn sculling, the PFD (personal flotation device), and basic survival techniques.

KEY MILESTONES
  • 25m

    Continuous movement on front

  • 30sec

    Scull, float or tread

  • 25m

    Swim with PFD after clothed entry

Clothing for assessment. Assessed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt. Students swim 15 metres clothed to experience how garments impede movement and flotation.

On assessment day. A orange swimming cap is issued to all Stage 2 participants when they arrive at the Centralised Assessment Centre.

Entries & Exits

  1. Step-in entry.

Sculling & Body Orientation

  1. Front float (mushroom or jellyfish), 10 sec.
  2. Swim 5m on front, rollover.
  3. Back float, 10 sec.
  4. Swim 5m on back.
  5. Scull, float or tread for 30 sec.

Underwater Skills

  1. Search for and recover an object in chest-deep (student's) water.

Movement / Swimming / Strokes

  1. Movement on front 25m (alternating arms & legs and/or simultaneous arms and legs).
  2. Movement on back 15m (alternating arms & legs and/or simultaneous arms and legs).

Survival & Activity Skills

What you wear & carry

Swimwear T-shirt Shorts PFD Goggles
  1. Scull, float or tread for 30 seconds.
  2. Clothed in swimwear, shorts and t-shirt: swim 15m using any survival stroke.
  3. Swim to pool edge and climb out.
  4. Put on an appropriately sized PFD and jump into water (at least 1.4m deep).
  5. Swim 25m with PFD, then climb out of the water.

Knowledge

  1. Principles of Personal Safety and Survival.
  2. Environmental Awareness.
  3. Health Awareness.
  4. Emergency Situations and Survival Techniques.
  5. Rescues.

Watch the official demonstration

A SportSG SwimSafer 2.0 video showing every Stage 2 criterion performed correctly. Hosted on YouTube.

SwimSafer 2.0 - Stage 2 demonstration SportSG

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Stage 3

Continue to the next stage's test criteria and milestones.

Stage 3