7. Controlled Buoyant Lifts
| Key Points |
Slow controlled lift, keep firm grip, breathe
normally, all students ascend together (avoid unsupervised students
on surface or submerged), use a sense of urgency. |
Introduction
Brief (SEEDS)
E - Explain what, why, how long, where.
E - Full kit
S - Ascend slowly and under control, good grip, breath normally.
All students ascend together.
D - Keep close, pay attention, look carefully and repeat when
prompted.
S - 'Up', 'down', 'you watch me', 'you repeat’, ‘you lift’, ‘a
little bit’
Questions
Kit UP
Demonstrate, work in buddy pairs.
Buddy Check (BAR)
In buddy pairs.
Entry
Demonstrate, mimic and correct.
Teaching subject (good positioning, demonstrate, mimic and correct)
Shallow |
- Demonstrate self-lift - Students repeat.
- Demonstrate lifting casualty and shaking them with regulator
and mask check - repeat with another student.
- Students repeat.
- Demonstrate grip with left hand (not on clips) and jacket inflation
(gently) until casualty lifts - repeat with another student.
- Students repeat with buddy.
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Deep |
- Repeat 2 - 5 and lift to mid water. Dump from jacket as required
- Student repeat.
- Repeat 2 - 5 and lift to the surface - controlled and slow,
inflate casualties jacket on breaking the surface - Students
repeat.
- Demonstrate making casualty buoyant, ensuring rescuers buoyancy,
removing regulator and mask and keeping airway clear, signalling/shouting
for help.
- Students repeat.
- Demonstrate total lift - Students repeat.
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Exit
De-Kit
Debrief (REAP)
R - Review - key points.
E - Encourage.
A - Assess - give constructive feedback.
P - Progression - link to next session.
Questions
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