9:00am Club Safety Session (9:30 start)

You will be getting wet so please wear swimmers or clothes you are willing to get fully wet. Also bring a towel and dry clothes to change into. 

On-land  will be a CPR and Defibrillator training session conducted by an experienced surf Life Saving trainer. The training will not result in a formal certificate of any type. However, it will include all the content that would normally be demonstrated in a certified course.

On-water will be a very practical session involving the following.

• Paddling to the sandbar then all crew exit the boat.
• Sea anchor deployed to keep boat as stationary as possible.
• Boat moved off sandbar just out of standing depth
• Boat rolled over
• Crew gather around the boat and simulate a post-rollover count off and check for injuries
• Simulated contact with Marine Rescue
• Individuals without PFDs encouraged to duck into the underneath of the rolled over boat and back out again
• Demonstration of how to release a person underneath who is wearing a PFD
• Rolling the boat back upright
• Crew progressively re-entering and bailing the boat
• Individuals encouraged to attempt re-entering the boat using the re-entry rope step
• Boat back to sandbar and all crew back on board
• Return to the boat ramp –change into dry clothes