Lifesaving Merit Badge
This course is open to anyone who already has Swimming Merit Badge.A course designed to help participants become more familiar with potential hazards of water activities, to prevent accidents, and to respond if an emergency does occur. This course does not qualify a participant to be a lifeguard. However, it will serve as a foundation for further training in lifeguarding. Participants will need to provide their own Lifesaving Merit Badge book.
NEW!:Adult CPR is a requirement for this course. This year we have included this American Red Cross course into the Lifesaving MB course at no extra cost!
Requirements
- Requirement 1a: Swimming Merit Badge
- Requirement 1b: Swim 400 yards
- Requirement 2a-e: Eight Point Safe Swim Defense Plan
- Requirement 2a-e: Safety Afloat
- Requirement 2a-e: The Order of Methods in Lifesaving
- Requirement 3: Reaching Rescues
- Requirement 4: Throwing Rescues
- Requirement 5: Boating Rescues
- Requirement 6: Non-contact Rescue Aids
- Requirement 7a-b: Rescue Tube with Active Victim
- Requirement 7c-d: Buoyant aid with Active Victim
- Requirement 7e: Disrobing in 20 seconds or less
- Requirement 8: Lead and Wait Tactics
- Requirement 9a-c: Tired Swimmer Assists
- Requirement 9b: Single Armpit Tow
- Requirement 9c: Cross Chest Carry
- Requirement 10: Wrist Grip Escape
- Requirement 10: Front Head Hold Escape
- Requirement 10: Rear Head Hold Escape
- Requirement 11: Stride Jump Entry
- Requirement 11: Compact Jump
- Requirement 11: Removing a victim from the water
- Requirement 11b: Wrist Tow
- Requirement 11c: Double Armpit Tow
- Requirement 12a: Feet first surface dives in 8-10 ft. of water
- Requirement 12b: Headfirst surface dives in 8-10 ft. of water
- Requirement 13: Adult CPR
- Requirement 14: Head Splint
- Requirement 14: Head and Chin Support
- Requirement 14: Backboarding Exercise
- Requirement 15: Swimming Based First Aid
- Written Test
