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Bronze Medallion Course

This course covers the following skills

  • Water Safety Theory
  • Reach rescue
  • Unweighted Rope Throw Rescue
  • Timed Tow
  • Swim Test
  • Survival Skills
  • Accompanied Rescue
  • Non-contact Tow
  • Spinal Injury Management
  • Defensive Techniques
  • Search and Rescue
  • Resuscitation
  • Initiative Test

You will be assessed on and awared these certificates upon successful completion:

  • Bronze Medallion Certificate – Royal Life Saving Society NSW
  • Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Bronze Medallion Course

The Royal Life Saving Bronze Medallion is recognised as the minimum standard for a qualified aquatic lifesaver.

The Bronze Medallion is a nationally recognised lifesaving award and has flexible delivery options to meet the needs of diverse groups.

This course delivers the Bronze Medallion training outdoors in the Blue Mountains with canyoning activities in mind.

Key facts:

  • Duration 6 hours
  • Minimum 6 participants.  Maximum 16
  • Meet at 8.30am at Dam Cliffs, Clarence

Pre-requisites

This 1-day course requires a proficient level of swimming skill and fitness for successful completion. Assessment items include a 400m continuous swim within 13 minutes, using 100m each of freestyle, breaststroke, sidestroke and survival backstroke. A 50m swim and 50m contact tow of an unconscious patient within 3 min 15 sec needs to be achieved.

Course participants:

Participants are required to provide their valid Unique Student Identifier (USI) for authentication purposes.

What you need:

  • Clothes suitable to the weather
  • Swimming gear
  • A wetsuit is highly recommended.  you may decide not to use it.
  • Long pants and long sleeve top to get wet – you will be required to swim in clothes for some of the assessment tasks
  • Food and water for the day
  • Towel and a dry change of clothes for after
  • Pen and notebook

Let us know on booking if you need help with any of these requirements

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