Posted on 11/23/2007 7:36:11 AM PST by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts from the Sierra Vista area, Cochise District, held an aquatic advancement event at The Cove last Saturday.
More than 100 Scouts gathered at The Cove to complete requirements for various rank advancements, badges and belt loops.
The Webelos Scouts earned their swimming belt loop and the aquanaut badge. Tiger, Wolf and Bear Cub Scouts completed the requirements for advancement or electives. They also earned the swimming belt loop.
Boy Scouts had the opportunity to earn partial credit or to complete the requirements for the swimming merit badge or the lifesaving merit badge. Younger Boy Scouts completed the swimming requirements for advancement to the rank of second class or first class.
Adult Scouters from the area provided the expertise to guide the boys in their endeavors. Leaders and senior Scouts from Troop 447, lead by Scoutmaster Joe Danz, were helped at the event. The event was organized by Jim and Cecilia Gross.
Other adults who assisted at the event were Laura Marinus, James King, Charlotte Chavous, Tammy Rodriguez, James Gross, Margaret Baldez, LT Richard Packer, Todd Heck, Debbie Soner, Paul Heslin, Brianna McCloskey, Patty McCloskey, Liane Paulson, Marla Stoner and Nathan Richards.
The assistance of The Cove lifeguard staff working the even was invaluable to the success of the Scout Aquatic Advancement Night.
IBFTP !!!!!
Safe Swimming Scouts
I was a lifeguard at a Boy Scout Camp for years, and mainly taught Swimming Merit Badge, Lifesaving Merit Badge, Rowing, and Waterskiing. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing a kid who has failed so many times to swim, surface dive, or successfully perform a “rescue”, finally succeed at that task.
Scouting offers the best pay around; the smiles on the faces of the Scouts when they achive what they were working so hard to do.
Is that a Boy Scout ping list? If so . . . can I get on it?
It is and you are as of right now.
It was awesome. I’d tell people I got paid to talk to kids about pop culture and work on my tan.
I learned lifeguarding in the Scouts. Still remember dragging those weights up from the bottom of the lake and learning to dive properly.
Compared to the BSA course, the old Red Cross course was an Easy Stroll for Ladies. We both passed . . . but gosh it was awfully hard work! (and I was a W.S.I. and summer camp counselor and lifeguard for years and years!)
I worked Aquatics staff at Owassippee Scout Reservation back in 1969. I taught Swimming, Lifesaving, Rowing and Canoeing; the latter being my favorite. I earned the Mile Swim every year from ages 12 to 16. I learned to swim when I was 10 at summer camp; my dad was a Scoutmaster and my mother and I were at camp while Dad was with the Troop. An Eagle Scout who had every MB in camp and was looking for something to do made me his personal project.
Last summer I took the Troop to Owassippe Scout Reservation and earned my 6th Mile Swim, at the age of 54. When I returned to the site the other 5 adults in camp were absolutely floored; apparently they were all making bets as to how far I would get before I was hauled gasping out of the lake; none of them thought I’d make it past 1/2 a mile.
Where else do kids learn to swim these days? Or paddle a canoe, or row a boat? Where will they learn to save their own life, or someone else, if they get in trouble in the water?
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