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Safety Afloat
First Aid
Strokes
Canoes and Paddles
Terms
100
True or False Participants should let their leaders know if they have had any recent illnesses or injuries since completing their medical form before participating in an event or activity.
What is TRUE
100
True or False – You cannot get hypothermia in the summer.
What is FALSE
100
It is initiated by placing the blade away from the hull, at a right angle to the centerline of the canoe and drawing it straight back.
What is Forward Stroke
100
True or False A canoe can only hold up to 3 paddlers.
What is FALSE. You should follow the manufacture's rules for maximum number of participants in a canoe.
100
A ridge that runs along the center line of the bottom of a canoe.
What is a Keel
200
The amount of time all participants should wait before resuming activities on or near the water.
What is 30 minutes
200
This heat reaction can include symptoms such as increased thirst, urine that is more yellow than normal, headache, and/or dizziness.
What is Dehydration
200
It begins like a standard stroke, but towards the end the paddle is rotated and pushed away from the canoe with the power face of the paddle remaining the same throughout the stroke.
What is J-Stroke
200
These are two different materials that a canoe can be constructed from.
What is Wood, aluminum, fiberglass, Kevlar, and/or Polyethylene (plastic)
200
___ is the left side of the boat and ___ is the right side of the boat.
What is port and starboard
300
Name the Safety Afloat point described below: When several canoes are used on a float trip, each canoe on the water should have a buddy boat.
What is the Buddy System
300
This is the treatment for a small laceration.
What is the wound should be cleaned, disinfected, and covered.
300
The paddle is inserted vertically in the water at arm's length from the gunwale, with the power face toward the canoe, and is then pulled inward to the paddler's hip.
What is Draw Stroke.
300
This aspect of the canoe design is what mainly affects the stability of the canoe. Hint: Options could include depth, width, length, hull shape, etc
What is Width or Beam
300
The ability of a canoe to travel straight.
What is Tracking
400
This is the distance that needs to be swam in a strong manor using the resting/elementary backstroke to be classified as a BSA Swimmer.
What is 25 yards
400
This is a minor injury that is formed when skin is irritated, usually by friction or heat. If broken, it should be treated as a minor cut.
What is a Blister
400
Begins with the paddle inserted vertically in the water, with the power face outward, and the shaft braced against the gunwale. A gentle prying motion is applied, forcing the canoe in the opposite direction of the paddling side.
What is Pry Stroke or Pushaway Stroke
400
This is where the shaft and blade join on a paddle.
What is the Throat
400
The distance between the surface of the water and the gunwales.
What is Freeboard
500
This is the maximum ratio of youth participants (number of scouts) to adult leadership (number of adults) for a Boy Scout activity, including canoeing.
What is 10 to 1 (10 scouts for every 1 adult)
500
When performing CPR on an adult (somebody who is not an infant), you should perform ___ compressions, at a rate of 100 per minute, and ___ rescue breaths for each cycle of CPR. For an additional 500 points: When do you stop providing CPR?
What is 30 compressions and 2 rescue breaths. For and additional 500 points: Continue cycles of CPR and do not stop except in one of these situations: You find obvious signs of life, an AED is ready to use, another responder or EMS personnel take over, you are too exhausted to continue, or the scene becomes unsafe.
500
When there are multiple people in the canoe, which person should steer the canoe in almost all situations?
What is the person sitting closest to the stern of the canoe.
500
The blade of this paddle is offset from the shaft to allow the blade to remain vertical to the canoe's path throughout the stroke. This improves the efficiency of each stroke and allows shorter strokes at an increased stroke rate. What type of paddle is this describing?
What is a Bent-Shaft Paddle
500
A detachable or built-in shoulder frame for carrying a canoe.
What is a Yoke.