General Guidelines
Qualified Supervision
Personal Health Review & Swimming Ability
PFD's and Buddy System
Fun Facts
100
Safety Afloat standards apply to the use of all but which of the following: canoes, kayaks, rowboats, razor scooters, rafts, floating tubes, sailboats, motorboats (including waterskiing), and other small craft.
What is razor scooters?
100
All activities afloat must be supervised by a mature and conscientious adult over the age of
What is 21
100
True or false: Scouts can perform their own physicals/health reviews
What is false?
100
PFD is short for this
What is personal floatation device?
100

Safety Afloat is no the only aquatic safety training and set of principles. There is also what?

What is Safe Swim?

200
True of False: Safety Afloat standards do not apply to transportation on large commercial vessels such as ferries and cruise ships.
What is True?
200

How many adult supervisors must be certified in CPR.

What is atleast 1.

200
True or false: Scouts can sign their own medical forms as long as their parent or legal guardian is somewhere in the vicinity
What is false. Only parents or legal guardians can sign forms.
200
This is the difference between a life jacket and a PFD.
What is nothing? A PFD (Personal floatation device) is the same thing as a life jacket.
200

The number of scouts that attend Sea Base (High Adventure Base) annually. 

What is 16,000.

300
Which of the following are not authorized BSA activities: Parasailing , kitesurfing , jet-skiing, and underwater basketweaving
What is all but underwater basketweaving?
300

True or False: A youth can become a certified BSA Lifeguard. 

True. If they complete the proper certification they can. You still would need a certified adult for aquatic activities though. 

300
Operation of any boat on a float trip is limited to youth and adults who have completed the BSA swimmer classification test. How often must swimmers complete this test?
What is annually?
300
Properly fitted life jackets must be approved by this branch of the United States Armed Forces.
What is The United States Coast Guard (USCG)?
300

The alternative names for the front and back of a boat.

Bow (Front) and Stern (Back)

400

How many points are there to "Safety Afloat"

What is 9

400
BSA required that one scout leader be present for every ___ scouts.
What is 10?
400

At the YMCA for the swim test, how many laps do you do and in what strokes?

4 laps. 3 in either breaststroke or freestyle, and the last is elementary backstroke. 

400
The U.S. armed forces uses the buddy system. In the army they are called Battle Buddies. In the Navy they are called Shipmates. In the Air Force they are called..
What is "Wingmen"?
400

The year scouts went to Ontario as a part of their Northern Tier trek.

What is 1972?

500

All scouts must review and compare BSA Safety Afloat and the American Whitewater safety guidelines in preparation for this.

What is the Whitewater Merit Badge?

500

A certified adult may have this item to ensure everyone can hear them when needed. 

A whistle and/or loudspeaker. 

500

How many levels of the BSA Swim Test is there and what are they?

What is 3. Non-Swimmer, Beginner, and Swimmer.

500

This is a system in which two people operate together as a single unit so that they are able to monitor and help each other.

What is the buddy system?

500

There are this many different levels of rapids (Whitewater). 

What is 6. There are 6 classes. Class 1 being the tamest while Class 6 being the most intense and dangerous. 

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