Swimming Recount

Swimming recount

On Monday the 2nd of march in the afternoon the whole of Te Kanawa  walked to the Village pools in Havelock on a really hot day for a swim to do some swimming drills and how to do CPR on a dummy.

We got split into four groups, the groups were room 13, room 15, room 16 and room 17 we did four rotations Diving, treading water, CPR (on a dummy) and also a  bucket challenge.

The drill that we did first was with Mr Stove.   We had to try to get our whole team to the other side of the pool only using buckets.  The rules were we weren't able to touch the side or the bottom of the pool with any of our body parts, if we did then we had to start from the start and do it all again.

After the first drill we went to Mr Birnie.  We had to dive into the pool and then do dolphin dive to the ropes and back,  then we had to do a corkscrew to the ropes and back (a corkscrew is when you spin around in the water doing freestyle and backstroke).The next Thing we did with Mr Birnie was doing a splash and dash to the other side of the pool doing freestyle.

Then we went to Miss Kimber for the third drill.  We had to tread water for ten minutes and if you touched the side of the pool or the bottom then we were out, by avoiding that we could do whatever we wanted to do to keep yourself afloat.  I think we managed to do ten minutes.  Half way through the treating water Matt swallowed lots of water and then he had to get out of the pool and he nearly drowned.  

The last skill was to practice doing CPR with Mrs Elmore.  The steps that we had to do was to check if its clear then jump in the water and tap them to see if they are awake. If they're not responding then you pull them to shore. After that you see if they're breathing. If they're not, you put your fingers in their mouth to get out all of the vomit or whatever it in there, but not the tongue. After that start to push on the chest as hard as you can even if you break some bones. If they still don't respond then you do it again. My favorite drill was the bucket challenge where you have to get your team to the other side with Mr Stove

When we were walking back we walked past this old man and he was smoking a cigarette. He started to walk past us and his top teeth were false and they were hanging out of his mouth.  It looked really creepy and funny.