I can haz bronze medallion
Sunday 2nd of May
The second day of Bronze Medallion was heaps better than the first! We started off with going over CPR and doing role plays again, knocked them all out quickly then got into the water for the rest of the day.
The swimming we did was all focussed on safe water entries, towing victims without equipemtn and rescue using floatation equipment. The victims we towed ranged from non swimmers, weak swimmers, injured swimmers, unconscious people and people with spinal injuries. We learned what to do with people with broken necks who’re face down in the water, what order to save multiple people in water who need your help, which is determined by what their problem is and how likely they are to survive. An example of that is you’ve got a non swimmer, injured swimmer and someone with a spinal injury in the water. You need to get the non swimmer out first because they can’t swim and are thrashing around in the water, so they’re alive but are likely to drown. Next is the injured swimmer, because although they’re injured they’re able to stay afloat in the water and aren’t in as much danger of drowing. Last is the spinal victim, because their chance of survival is so much lower than the others right from the start.
I didn’t get the chance to do my 400m swim again because the people who came in for their BM update did that while everyone else started on towing victims. Bit of a bummer, but it doesn’t matter anyway.
I would seriously reccomend anyone who does swimming or even just goes out to the beach and jumps into water from piers etc… to do bronze medallion. There are a lot of useful things to learn in the course you wouldn’t learn otherwise, plus it’s just a fun course anyway.
