- Title
- Getting in : safe water entry competencies
- Creator
- Moran, Kevin; Blitvich, Jennifer; Petrass, Lauren; McElroy, Keith
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180537
- Identifier
- vital:15786
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.25035/ijare.13.02.04
- Identifier
- ISBN:1932-9997 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- In high income countries, jumping and diving into water are a small but persistent cause of death and serious injury especially among male youth and young adults. Although water entries maintain a high media profile, little is known about what entry competencies and underlying water safety knowledge youth bring to this practice. Undergraduates enrolled in aquatics (N= 76) completed a survey before attempting 7 entry jumping and diving tasks. While safety attitudes and self-reported behaviours were generally good, considerable variation in practical entry competence was evident. Most completed a deep-water compact jump (87%) and PFD jump (88%) with ease. Many completed a crouch dive (57%) and standing dive (53%) into deep water with ease, but only 33% completed a standing dive from a block/bulkhead (<1m height) with ease. Ways of addressing weaknesses in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours are discussed and recommendations made to enhance the teaching of safe water entry. © 2021 Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.. All rights reserved.
- Publisher
- Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
- Relation
- International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education Vol. 13, no. 2 (2021), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 Human Kinetics Publishers Inc.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy; Diving; Drowning prevention; Jumping; Water competency; Water safety education
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