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Item Name: Life Saving 1942 - 1945

Item ID: LifSav-D2

Collector Rating: 1

Pamphlets Used to Earn this Badge

Requirements November 1938 until December 1943

(These tests must be performed before a Counselor who holds the American Red Cross Senior Life Saving Membership Card.)

To obtain this Merit Badge, a Scout must first have met the Merit Badge Requirements for Swimming, must have spent at least six hours in preparation and practice, and must demonstrate the following:

1. Demonstrate twice his ability to remove, except underpants or bathing trunks, street clothes* in 20 seconds or less.

2. Watching struggling person constantly, remove street clothes on shore in 20 seconds, enter water feet first (by jumping or running), swim 30 feet, make correct approach, and tow victim 30 feet with head carry.

3. Watching struggling person constantly, enter water feet first (by jumping or running) and -

(a) Swim 30 feet, make correct approach, and tow victim 30 feet to shore with hair carry.

(b) Swim 30 feet, make correct approach, and tow victim 30 feet to shore with cross chest carry.

4. Enter water with a pancake dive, swim 30 feet, make correct approach to a tired person and use tired swimmer's carry for 30 feet to shore.

5. In water at least 6 feet deep, demonstrate how to block effectively, or to avoid by ducking, the grasp of a struggling person and how to turn and place him in a position for towing ashore.

6. Release -

(a) Double grip on one wrist, left and right.
(b) Front strangle hold, left and right.
(c) Back strangle hold, left and right.

7. Demonstrate resuscitation, 1-1/2 minutes, prone pressure method.

8. Surface dive in 6 to 8 feet, recovering various objects three times and a 10-pound weight once.

9. In deep water, remove street clothes, and swim 100 yards.

* Street clothes mean socks, low shoes, underwear (or bathing suit), trousers, shirt, tie, and coat or sweater or sweatshirt.

 

Requirements December 1943 until June 1953

(These tests must be performed before a Counselor who holds the Senior Life Saving Certificate of one of the following organizations: American Red Cross, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Y.M.C.A., or who holds an Aquatic School Certificate of the Boy Scouts of America for Life Saving)

To obtain this Merit Badge, a Scout must first have met the Merit Badge Requirements for Swimming, must have spent at least six hours in preparation and practice, and must demonstrate the following:

1. Demonstrate twice his ability to remove, except underpants or bathing trunks, street clothes* in 20 seconds or less.

2. Demonstrate correct approach to drowning persons who are in the following positions:

Back to you - Back approach

Fact to you with head above water - Underwater approach.

3. With the aid of a buddy and a subject, demonstrate the following rope rescue both as line tender and as rescuer:

As rescuer - Carrying the looped end of 50 feet of 1/8 inch rope across shoulder and chest, enter water with run or jump, swim 50 feet to struggling object whom you grasp with one hand, grasp rope with other hand and be towed ashore.

As line tender - Chain knot rescue line. Tie and place loop around rescuer's shoulder, pay out rope and pull rescuer and subject ashore.

4. Watching struggling person constantly, enter water feet first (by jumping or running) and - (a) Swim 30 feet, make correct approach, and tow victim 30 feet to shore with hair carry. (b) Swim 30 feet, make correct approach, and tow victim 30 feet to shore with cross chest carry.

5. Swim 30 feet, make correct approach to a tired person and using tired swimmer's carry push 30 feet to shore.

6. In water at least 6 feet deep, demonstrate how to block effectively and avoid by ducking, the following grips of a struggling person: Around neck with right arm, with left arm, with both arms. In each case, turn struggling person around and place him in a position for towing ashore.

7. Demonstrate resuscitation, 1-1/2 minutes, prone pressure method.

8. Surface dive in 6 to 8 feet, recovering various objects three times and a 10 pound weight once.

9. In deep water, remove street clothes* and swim 100 yards.

* Street clothes mean socks, low shoes, underwear (or bathing suit), trousers, shirt, tie and coat or sweater or sweatshirt).