SAFE SNORKEL

Safety: (number one in our day. Everyone’s ok and doesn’t get hurt.)

Accident:(report all accidents to staff)

First aid: (staff members only to administer)

Emergency:  (continuous hoots. Strait to collection point on beach and look for buddy.)Sun: (wear hats & sunscreen-repeat application after swimming.)

Nourishment: eat & drink regularly to avoid hypothermia & dehydration

Ocean: don’t enter the water without direction from staff and only swim / snorkel in designated areas

Reef: reefs are sharp- don’t swim too close to the reef and NO TOUCH policy on all dives.

Keep together: always swim close to your buddy and remain in sight. Communicate regularly to check they’re O.K- go through signals.

Environment: keep warm (wear wetsuit)-inform buddy & staff member if it’s getting too cold.

Leave no trace: continually monitor the area for rubbish-keep your belongings together in your bag & keep watch for any strangers in the area.

Coogee Snorkel trail

Firstly we went to practice our snorkeling skills at coogee.

The trail

Snorkeling skills

My best session at coogee

My personal development throughout the snorkeling

The development of my capabilities

organisation

When I first started out at Muir I was not organised at all. I was forgetting to bring a bag or I wouldn’t pack my stuff the night before. This would affect my brother and sister trying to get to school as well. As the Muir course continued I realised that I was learning how to become organised. I was remembering to bring my bag and I was packing my stuff the night before. This made life much easier when I was trying to get out in the morning.

problem solving

Problem solving was a very hard thing for me to try and incorporate in snorkeling because I like to stick to a structured day, and when something doesn’t plan out the way it’s meant to, I find it hard to keep on track. Me not being able to problem solve would affect Mu and I during snorkeling. It would affect us because maybe the weather would be bad that day and I wouldn’t think to put on both my layers because it was only meant to be sunny.

Resilient

I have always thought of myself as being a very resilient person because I have always tried my best at things and if I didn’t do well I would persevere and get a better mark next time. I also have been resilient because I have moved halfway across the world to a new school that does things very differently, I have had to change sports clubs and I have had to make new friends. Muir has cemented being resilient into me because one week I got extremely cold at the end of the session but I pushed through and made it back to school safely.

By Jack Maxwell