dazle
Contributor
I'm a bit on the fence on this, yes I agree that DM's should be good swimmers, very strong, hmmm, the thing is there's a lot of other things that you could become good at to improve you, languages, specialities etc. Making someone who smokes (inc the good stuff) and drinks, turn into David Hasslehoff is asking a bit too much. Maybe you could stop drinking and smoking and exercise regularly, but if that was a requirement I know a lot of DM's that would be up **** creek.
DiveMasters on boats. Now these guys do have to act like life guards and should be very strong swimmers.
I think the swim tests for DM are good if you base them on the score (5 max) rather than doing them. Don't know about IDC but DM is:
400m in your swimsuit, freestyle, open water, timed. Goggles allowed (WOO HOO I can say goggles without having to go to the bar)
800m Snorkel, Mask n Fins, no use of arms unless to scratch arse
15 min treading water in swimsuit. Last 2 mins holding 2kg's above water.
If you get 4's, 5's on them then I reckon that you're in fair nick to rescue