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Water safety / life saving classes etc.

  • 08-05-2012 9:53am
    #1
    kingQuez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭


    Hi Folks,

    Are there any good life saving / water safety classes you'd recommend someone to take if they're involved in OW swimming (mostly triathlon related)?

    I'm not a great swimmer by a "proper" swimmer's standard, but increasingly I find myself swimming with small groups of similar or lower abilities than myself during training. I'm happy to swim in rough(ish) water myself, or when it's calm we'd swim a bit further out from the shore.

    I think wearing a wetsuit and swimming in appropriate conditions reduces a lot of the risks, but I'd be interested to learn a bit more about what situations can arise and how to deal with them appropriately.

    No interest in using it for anything professional, just looking for something practical, ideally OW specific. I dont know if a standard pool lifesaving class is worth doing, or if there's something more appropriate that I should look at?

    Cheers,


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  • #2
    kris71
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 137 ✭✭kris71


    Go for a beach lifeguard pool as others are mainly about pool, I would recommend IWS takes a bit of time but does the job whereabouts are you?


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