Guardavidas
This additional training is required for Lifeguarding.
What is CPR/AED for the professional rescuer?
These two terms are used to describe the left and right sides of a vessel.
What are port and starboard.
This knot is used on a cleat.
What is a cleat hitch?
*100 bonus points to any team that can tie it.
A buddy tag requires what 3 items to be listed on the back?
What are first name, troop, and campsite?
This Merit Badge requires scouts to pass the Scouting America Swimmer's Test.
What is every aquatics merit badge?
Six items that a lifeguard should always carry while on duty.
What are a whistle, hip pack, resuscitation mask, gloves, watch, and guard tube. (sunglasses if sunny)
The parts of this vessel include a rudder, tiller and daggerboard.
What is a sailboat.
This knot is used to tie the ends of two ropes together.
What is square knot (reef knot) OR sheet bend?
*200 points to any team that can tie them.
This written plan describes the procedure for a response to a serious incident or lost swimmer.
What is an Emergency Action Plan?
This Merit Badge requires scouts to swim 150 yards.
What is Swimming MB?
*100 Bonus points if can name swimming strokes required and distance of each.
What is - activate the EAP, enter the water, use an approach stroke towards the victim, communicate intention and reassure, approach victim from behind, grab underneath the shoulders while securing tube to chest, cup shoulders of victim and swim backwards towards safety while continuing communication.
This slipknot is used to secure the end of a rope to a post/railing and will tighten down when pulled.
What is two half-hitches?
*200 bonus points to any team that can tie it.
These three swimming classifications describe a scouts abilities in the water.
What are non-swimmer, beginner, and swimmer?
*100 bonus points to any team that can describe the steps of the beginner's test.
These two merit badges require scouts to perform a Line and Tender rescue.
What are Swimming MB and Lifesaving MB?
*200 Bonus points - what rank requires demonstration of Line and Tender rescue?
The first priority after making contact with a drowning person suspected of head, neck or spinal injury and providing stabilization.
What is check for breathing?
These are the 5 types of lifejackets and a description of each.
What are
Type 1: Offshore
Type 2: Near shore - horseshoe collar
Type 3: Vest with zipper and/or buckles
Type 4: Throwable
Type 5: Specialty - Inflatable - Whitewater
This knot is used to temporarily moor to a post/railing, attach the halyard to the yard, and also to start a lashing.
What is a clove hitch?
The maximum depth of the swimmer's area, beginners area and non-swimmers area.
What are 12 ft (swimmers), slightly over the head (beginners), waist to chest (non-swimmers)?
This Merit Badge requires scouts to demonstrate the forward power stroke, reverse power stroke, forward sweep, reverse sweep, draw, push-away, rudder stroke, and J-stroke.
What is Canoeing MB?
The acronym S.A.M.P.L.E is used for a secondary assessment, name the 6 components.
What are Symptoms, Allergies, Medications, Past medical history, Last oral intake, and Events leading up to event?
These are the six possible materials used in the construction of a canoe.
What are aluminum, fiberglass, wood, polyethylene, kevlar, and Royalex?
*100 bonus points to any team that can describe the pros/cons of a aluminum boat. (Pro - durable; Cons - heavy, difficult to repair)
This knot, which is a combination of a marlin spike hitch and two half-hitches is used for tightening a rope - typically for the purpose of securing an object to a vehicle or trailer.
What is a trucker's hitch?
*1000 bonus points to any team that can tie it.
This is the procedure for treating a nosebleed.
What is apply PPE, ask the person to hold the head straight and looking forward, apply gauze to nostril(s) and apply light pressure until bleeding stops - if necessary insert a nosebleed stop (tampon) to nostril(s), properly dispose of all contaminated materials in a hazardous waste container?
This Merit Badge requires scouts to tie a clove hitch, cleat hitch, bowline, anchor bend, and sheet bend.
What is Motorboating MB?