LIFE PRESERVER - could be valuable in certain conditions

[Scotty_Tradewind]

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S.

 

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I got shown the basic idea at a very young age - but we inflated the trousers by pulling them through the air over our heads. I've never come across this scooping / splashing idea - it looks unbelievably effective. How on earth do three leaky handfuls of air fill the trousers? Sure he doesn't have a small gas cylinder concealed in his pants?

Pete

 

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Taught this as a child, my own child was taught this as part of her swimming lessons.

 

[RichardS]

I got shown the basic idea at a very young age - but we inflated the trousers by pulling them through the air over our heads. I've never come across this scooping / splashing idea - it looks unbelievably effective. How on earth do three leaky handfuls of air fill the trousers? Sure he doesn't have a small gas cylinder concealed in his pants?

Pete

Yep. Like Pete that "knotted trouser" idea was part of gaining my Lifesaving Certificate which I gained at Junior School. That plus swimming 10 lengths fully clothed, diving down for a brick at the deep end, doing mouth-to-mouth and CPR, dragging a drowning classmate using an crooked arm round their neck (!) etc etc.

Do any kids still learn any of that? I don't think my two did.

Richard

 

[Cheery]

We did that as a Bronze Medallion course when I was posted to Cyprus in '86. We had to do 8 lengths of a 50m pool, recover a casualty, swim 8 lengths back, climb out and drag them out as well. We also had to give mouth to mouth in the water.

 

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Did anyone else have to float around a pool shouting "PIZZA!" or anything similar?

We had to practice calling for help while rescuing someone, but it was sensibly decided that bunch of kids yelling "HELP!" from the pool would cause all sorts of false-alarm mayhem

Pete