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Outdoor Education…Character development through the outdoors
With about 16,000km of coastline extending over ten degrees of latitude, New Zealand offers a wide range of beach and surf environments, much of it within easy reach of the entire population.
Therefore, beaches have always held centre stage in our outdoor lifestyle.
In your Manaakitanga workbook:
Write down your favourite New Zealand beach and why?
Staying safe at a beach
Staying safe at a beach
Surf survival is a person’s ability to survive causal factors that may be encountered in a beach and surf environment. The causal factor may be as minor as a jellyfish sting or as life-threatening as big surf hitting a rock ledge.
Understanding the risk of overexposure to the sun’s harmful rays or the influence of excess heat and cold on both passive and active beach and surf pursuits, may be the difference in reducing risk and ensuring an enjoyment of the beach environment. With regard to water-based activities, swimming ability, surf skill and risk management interact to determine one’s ability to survive in a surf environment. Strong pool swimmers when faced with a crisis have been known to swim away from safety because of a lack of surf or risk management skills.
In your Manaakitanga workbook:
Write down your experiences of swimming in waves e.g. body surfing, board riding, being dumped, being in a rip, being rescued, etc… Be prepared to share your experiences with the class.
Swimming between the flags
Swimming between the flags
Read the article from the NZ Herald below, “Angry lifesavers hit out at problem swimmers” and answer in your workbook: What is the best approach to swimming safely in the waves?
Angry lifesavers hit out at problem swimmers.pdfDrowning - watch from 2:01 to 9:49
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