On Wednesday and Thursday, the 4th and 5th of March, 13 students from Foster Secondary College participated in and passed Life Saving Victoria’s accredited Pool Lifeguard Skillset at the Korumburra Outdoor Pool. Pool activities involved completing a timed 200-meter swim, extraction of “Elvis”, a 40kg dummy from a depth of 3 meters, performing a water rescue, as well as a simulated spinal patient extraction from shallow water. The students also completed 6 hours of compulsory online theory, CPR training, and gained expertise in the correct administration of oxygen and the use of a defibrillator. All activities onsite required the students to work in teams.
This training was facilitated by Mark Tudor from the South Gippsland Bass Coast Trade Skills Alliance in partnership with Sarah Lawless from the South Gippsland Bass Coast Local Learning and Employment Network and generously funded by the Martin Carlson Foundation to provide bus transport to and from hired venues at the 2nd Scout Hall and the Outdoor Pool in Korumburra so that training could be provided by Life Saving Victoria. Through this collaboration, the goal is to support young people to gain skills and qualifications to realise employment opportunities in their local communities. We look forward to seeing these students working as Pool Lifeguards at the Toora, Foster, Leongatha and Korumburra pools soon.
The students who completed the training as pictured from left to right are Charlotte, Abbey, Tess, Sophie, South, Casey, Zephyr, Oscar, Tex, Mason, Max, Archer, (Stewart Nicoll – trainer) and Alistair.