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How to earn your badge:
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Learn the general safety rules for swimming (such as not diving into shallow water or not swimming on your own) and where it is safe to swim locally.
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Show you know how to prepare for exercises. You could do this by leading a warm up.
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Demonstrate a racing dive into at least 1.8 metres of water and straddle jump into at least 2 meters of water.
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Swim 100 metres in less than four minutes.
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Tread water for five minutes.
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Surface dive into 1.5 metres of water, both head first and feet first and swim at least 5 metres under water on both occasions.
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Enter the water as you would if you didn’t know the depth. Swim 10 metres to a floating object. Use the object to take up and hold the heat escape lessening posture for five minutes.
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Swim 800 metres using any of the four recognised strokes without stopping. You should swim 400m on your front and 400m on your back.
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Take part in an organised swimming activity that’s different to the one on your previous swimming badge.
