Prerequisite
Must be able to dive in and swim 50 yards of front crawl, back crawl, sidestroke, and breaststroke. Must be able to execute a pike or tuck surface dive to 8 feet, swim underwater 20 feet, surface and tread water for 5 minutes.

Skills taught at this level

• Review Advancement Skills for Park Shark

• Surface dives (pike, tuck, feet first - retrieve brick from 8 feet)

• Compact jump with rescue tube, swim 25 yards with rescue tube using approach stroke

• Improve flip turns front and back

• Personal safety (barriers and bloodborne pathogens)

• 500-yard swim using all strokes except butterfly

• 200-yard individual medley

• Butterfly

• Review basic rescues with tube (front drive, rear huggie)

• Jellyfish float for 5 minutes

• Tread water for 3 minutes

• Egg-beater kick for 25 feet

• Brick tread for 1 minute

• Personal fitness (heart rate and lap swim etiquette)

• Underwater swim for 20 feet

Advancement Skills

• Swim 4 lengths each of breaststroke, back crawl, sidestroke, and front crawl

• Long shallow dive, swim 100-yard individual medley

• Compact jump and approach stroke 10 yards with rescue tube