Lifeguard Certification

Question 1

Active Victim Front Rescue

Answer 1

• victim is facing towards me, active means they are flailing around and able to call for help
• swim over to them, push the rescue tube into their chest and under their arms, turn them around to face the wall, push the rescue tube with straight arms

Question 2

Active Victim Rear Rescue

Answer 2

• victim is facing away from me, active means they are flailing around and able to call for help

swim up from behind, wrap both arms through their armpits with flat hands, ask them to kick with you back to the edge of the wall

Question 3

Passive Victim Front Rescue

Answer 3

• victim is facing towards me, face down in the water and is unresponsive
• swim up to them, grab the arm opposite to my dominant one, as you’re twisting them over, push down rescue tube to be on their back

Question 4

Passive Victim Rear Rescue

Answer 4

• victim is facing away from me, face down in the water and is unresponsive
• come up from behind them, put both arms under their armpits, and spin underwater to flip them over into the jesus position, slide tube underneathe them

Question 5

Passive Victim in Extremely Shallow Water - Face Up

Answer 5

• come up to the side of them and put both arms near their head, and put rescue tube underneathe them

Question 6

Passive Victim in Extremely Shallow Water - Face Down

Answer 6

• come up from the side, and flip them towards you, push the rescue tube underneathe them

Question 7

Multiple Victim Rescue

Answer 7

• swim up to the biggest victim first, wrap your arms through their armpits, and ask the other person to hug them
• can also do front active rescue on biggest victim and have the other person hold onto their back

Try to wrap your arms around both of them at once

Question 8

Passive Submerged Victim Face Down - Shallow Water

Answer 8

• come to them underwater, grasp both of their arms, flip them over underwater and bring their arms up near their head, put rescue tube under them

Question 9

Submerged Victim Rescue Deep Water

Answer 9

PUT THE TUBE UNDER THEM BEFORE YOU EVEN GET TO THE SURFACE

Question 10

Suspected Spinal Injury - Face Up in Water

Answer 10

• put their arms together by the ears and grasp their arms firmly

Question 11

Suspected Spinal Victim - Face Down in Water

Answer 11

• come up from behind them, put their arms to the side of their head and flip them around to face you

Question 12

Spinal Backboard Shallow Water

Answer 12

• put spinal backboard at an angle once the victim is approaching, black part should be low in the water