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JUNIOR SKIPPER

Practical water safety experience

The Safe Boating Programme by Coastguard Education offers children hands-on boating and water safety experience, regardless of their confidence level. This initiative covers essential in-water survival techniques such as:

  • Proper selection and fitting of lifejackets. 
  • The HELP and Huddle position, stressing the importance of keeping warm in the water. 
  • Rescue chains and how to stay and move together. 
  • How to exit and get back on board your boat 
  • Throw ropes and the importance of communication

 The program is run in a pool and provides a fun, controlled, and safe environment for learning valuable boating skills.

OUTCOMES

Fitting a Lifejacket

Getting into the Water

Stepping into the Water

Floating in the Water & HELP

Huddle and Rescue Chain

Rescue Chain 2

Rescue Chain 3

Stepping into a boat safely

SCUBA Exit from a Boat

Overturning a boat

Getting back into a boat

Swimming into an Air Pocket

Bailing the Boat

Rescue Lines

SCENARIOS

Overloaded Boat

Oversized lifejacket

GIVE YOUR CHILD
PRACTICAL SKILLS

My daughter’s favourite activity is falling backwards off the boat. Using the boat is a highlight on each swimming season and translates to outside swimming lessons and into the real word. 

– Rachel

My child loved the Safe Boating Programme! They learned so much about water safety and had fun doing it. They even taught me things about what to do in an emergency. Highly recommend!.

– Paula

Every child needs to take this programme. The skills that they learn are invaluable and they will have them for life. A well thought out and engaging programme that I highly recommend.

– Jason

86,000

Children took part in the Safe Boating Programme last year

150+

Primary and Intermediate Schools took part

#250+

Instructors were trained and ran the programme

99%

Of children found the programme beneficial

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THE ADVENTURE?

Be safe around boats and on the water when you take the Junior Skipper Safe Boating Programme.