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OMAHA POLICE DEPARTMENT
S.A.F.E. Event, JUNE 7, 2009
Safety Awareness & Fitness
Education
Summer Skills earn Fall Fun!
You need three things to be considered safe in the water:
strong swimming skills, water safety knowledge, and practical
experience. Our summer
swimming challenge will help you develop all three.
Complete each task listed on the Challenge sheet.
Your completed challenge sheet is your ticket to more swimming
fun this fall in the indoor pool at Brownell-Talbot School on the dates
listed below.
Fall Family Swimming
Dates
Noon to 3:00 PM on September 26, October 17, and November 14
Your
completed Challenge Sheet is good for one family admission to Family
Swim at B-T Aquatics on each of the dates listed.
Contact the pool or visit btaquatics.org for a list of pool
rules. You may be asked to
demonstrate the skills you list as complete on your sheet.
B-T Aquatics at Brownell-Talbot School
400 N. Happy Hollow Blvd., Omaha
402.556.1205
Click for MAP.
Click for unofficial Challenge Sheets:
English
Spanish (coming soon)
Official Challenge Sheets may be obtained at the
Omaha Police
Department's Southeast Precinct's 7th Annual
S.A.F.E. event on June 7.
You must attend the S.A.F.E. event to participate
in this program.
CHALLENGES
Have each task verified by a swimming professional:
lifeguard, swimming instructor, or swim coach.
SWIMMING SKILLS:
Proficiency at these skills will help you be safe in the swimming pool.
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Demonstrate a relaxed, motionless, balanced back float for 10
seconds.
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movie.
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From a relaxed, balanced back float, roll onto your stomach with
your face in the water and then back onto your back again.
Reestablish a balanced back float position.
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movie.
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Jump into the water, recover to a relaxed balanced back float,
swim a minimum of 15 feet on your back and exit the pool
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WATER SAFETY KNOWLEDGE:
Study and practice until you can answer all three questions without
looking at the answers.
Then, demonstrate that you can answer the questions.
Date:________
Initials:________
Question: Who is most
responsible for keeping you safe in the swimming pool?
Answer: YOU!
Make good choices.
Question: What is the most
important swimming rule?
Answer: Never swim alone.
Question: What is the most
important swimming skill?
Answer: a relaxed, balanced
back float
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE:
Even when you can pass the skills challenges and answer all the water
safety questions, you need to practice to be safe.
Visit a pool at least three times to practice your skills.
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Did you know?
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A swimming
pool is 14 times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of
a child age four and under.
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70% of all
preschoolers who drown are in the care of one or both parents at the time of
drowning.
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Drowning is
the second leading cause of unintentional injury-related death for children
between the age of one and 14.
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Nine people
drown in the United States every day.
Learn more. B-T Aquatics offers a free online
course: Water Safety Education for
Parents & Caregivers.
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