School Aquatic Programs
(including the complusory Swimming & Water Safety Program)

The teaching of diving is as an integral part of the Swimming and Water Safety Program. Lead up skills should be included into the teaching area of entries in all aquatic safety and survival lessons. Introduction to head first entries should only occur when students have adequately mastered the skills of all other forms of entry and exhibit the required level of confidence in the water.

Diving lessons should follow a sequential development of appropriate skills so as to introduce students safely to the activity.

The teaching of standing head-first entries from the edge of a pool must take place in water of depth at least equal to the person's height when standing with their arms fully extended vertically.

Diving blocks or similar should only be introduced when students have adequately mastered the skills from water level. Minimum water depth 1800mm.

Competition

All schools / colleges are advised in any pool which is marked with “Shallow – No Diving” that races should start from in the water.

• Starting blocks should only be used by those competitors deemed as competent of executing a safe forward dive entry (minimum depth 1800mm)
• Poolside Dives (poolside height to be no greater than 380mm) should only be used by those competitors deemed as competent of executing a safe forward dive entry and should be at water of a depth no less than 1350mm.