Safety Around Water (SAW)
Over the this program, adults and children learn important skills in and around water, including:
- Basic swim skills, like floating, blowing bubbles, the freestyle stroke and the front crawl
- Safety skills, like CPR, identifying a safe place to swim and water rescue techniques (“Reach or Throw, Don’t Go”)
- Survival swim skills, like pushing off the bottom of the pool to resurface (“Jump, Push, Turn, Grab”) and a method of swimming on your front and back (“Swim, Float, Swim”)