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WATER RESCUE COURSE

INSTRUCTORS

MARGIT BORKOVITS PhD

ELTE PPK ESI, Adjunktus

LEVEL SURVEY

A medical certificate is required to complete the course.

100 m freestyle swimming, 100 m breaststroke swimming, 100 m backstroke swimming, retrieving an object from the water.

Those who cannot meet the requirements of the level assessment cannot participate in the practical course. The advance fee of HUF 20,000 will not be refunded.

THEMATICS

THEORY: 1-15. HOURS (ON-LINE)

Dangers of the waters, prevention

Bathing rules

First aid, life saving

Emotional reactions occurring during water rescue

Self rescue

Direct companion rescue

Co-rescue with devices

Meteorological knowledge

Radio skills

 

PRACTICE: 25 + 10 HOURS

Self-rescue (stomping, spasm resolution, floating)

Direct partner rescue (jumps into the water, swimming with fins, approaches, escape catches, transport and towing techniques, methods of getting ashore)

Co-rescue with equipment (various rescue equipment and their use, as well as the use of a rescue boat)

Adaptation of swimming during rescue for persons requiring special treatment

Radio skills

Practicing first aid, practicing revivification on a demonstration doll, stable side lying.

EXAM

On the last day

ORAL EXAM (FROM THREE TOPICS)

First aid and resuscitation skills
Knowledge of water rescue
Communication

PRACTICAL EXAM: MUST BE PERFORMED IN OPEN WATER!

50m freestyle swimming (with the head standing out of the water, without fins) in 50 seconds.
400 m combined swimming in 8:00 minutes (50 m breaststroke swimming, 100 m faststyle swimming, (picking up a fin without holding on), then 150 m rescue swimming with fins, 100 m freestyle swimming with fins,
20 m underwater swimming*
After swimming 20m on the surface of the water, searching for a demonstration rescue doll from a water depth of 2-3 meters in an area marked with 4x4m buoys and bringing up from the water in 3:00 minutes *
Approaching a demonstration rescue doll, that is 50 m underwater. (with head up and fast swimming with fins).

Diving, bringing the demonstration doll out of the water, then towing it with two-handed armpit grips for 50 meters in 2 minutes.
200 m run – 200 m swim – 200 m run in 7:00 minutes *
200m faststyle swim in 7:00 minutes. The task ends with taking off the clothing without holding on and putting the clothes on the land (long-sleeved tops, long legged pants, which cannot be close-fitting).
Presentation of water jumps (headlong jump, bomb, sole jump, rescue jump)
Demonstration of a rescue with equipments from a distance of 10m (lifebuoy, lifebelt, or throwing bag) *
Carrying out a combined rescue task so that the victim is approx. is 25m away from the shore (approach, escape catch, towing and lifting to the land), followed by a demonstration of complete resuscitation on the beach with the help of a demonstrating doll *
Open water rowing in a lifeboat (2021, National Professional Lifeguard Service)

CERTIFICATE

Certificate in English and German + HUF 3.000 HUF in addition to the certificate in Hungarian.