Children and adults are seen enjoying themselves in, and on, water, and two survival situations are depicted. Demonstrates treading water, endurance swimming (suitable strokes), surface diving, swimming under water, entry into water, exit and use of rope ladder. Designed to encourage swimmers to learn how to survive in emergency situations.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
010476
Language
English
Subject categories
Anthropology, Ethnology, Exploration & Travel → Survival skills
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Emergency management
Documentary → Documentary films - Great Britain
Educational & Instructional → Educational films
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Emergency management
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Survival skills
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Aquatic sports - Safety measures
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Sports
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Survival skills
Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Swimming - Safety measures
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)