Swim Test?

[Gary D.]

Mine have.
NAUI Yes
Navy Yes
PADI Yes
DRI (every 3 years) Yes

Gary D.

 

[Jack'sDivingLocker]

PADI requires a 200 yard swim...or you can do 300 yards with mask/snorkel/fins. There is also a 10 minute tread/float. It's important to know that the student is comfortable in the water.

I am not aware of a training agency that doesn't require some form of watermanship assessment as part of of their certification program.

 

[Teamcasa]

It's very possible that the instructor had prior knowledge of the students swimming abilities. I wonder if an instructor would require Mark Spitz to make the swim to pass his OW. I doubt it.

 

[khacken]

NAUI requires 15 continuous stroke cycles (any stroke), 10 minute survival swim, and 50 ft underwater swim. Of course, the instructor is allowed to require more beyond this minimum requirement.

 

[jsado]

I'm PADI certified. We had to do a 200 yard swim with no fins, and IMMEDIATELY following that, a 15 minute portion of treading water WITH THE LAST FIVE minutes of treading water with your hands above your head. Then, the instructors said "if you wanna see what its like to pass the DM test, keep treading water with your hands above your head for another five minutes." There was 6 of us in the class. All 6 attempted the last 5 minutes, 2 actually did it....and yes I was one of the 2.

 

[Carribeandiver]

I am SSI and NAUI OW certified and I was required to make a 25 yard underwater swim, 300 yard surface swim, 10 minute tread and 5 minute float.
For DIR I had to make a 25 yard underwater swim and swim 300 yards in under 12 minutes (maybe it was 14, I cant remember exactly)
The funny thing is for NAUI Rescue I was not required to perform any swim test. I would think a Rescue diver should know how to swim better than the avg Joe/Jill but what do I know?

 

[Bob]

I require my NAUI OW students to do a 200 yard swim. Haven't had a student unable to complete it yet. almtree: Bob

 

[Al Mialkovsky]

I require my NAUI OW students to do a 200 yard swim. Haven't had a student unable to complete it yet. almtree: Bob

I've had a couple go out too hard and got too tired to complete it the first time. One actually went out so hard she only swam about 1/3 of the way, had to be rescued and then she dropped out of the course. She was a college swimner, about 30 years ago. But she's the only fail to complete forever.

 

[pir8]

I know that I could have them do the snorkel swim instead of the regular swim but I prefer to not mention that they could and just have them swim. If they know about it and request it I'll let them, it is in standards, but I prefer swimming. I make sure and stress that there is no time limit and you can do it with any combination of strokes. I just want you to be comfortable in the H2O. Oh yeah ya gotta float for 10 minutes to.

 

[haha49]

I'm PADI certified. We had to do a 200 yard swim with no fins, and IMMEDIATELY following that, a 15 minute portion of treading water WITH THE LAST FIVE minutes of treading water with your hands above your head. Then, the instructors said "if you wanna see what its like to pass the DM test, keep treading water with your hands above your head for another five minutes." There was 6 of us in the class. All 6 attempted the last 5 minutes, 2 actually did it....and yes I was one of the 2.

im my class we had to do 10 laps then tred water.. but the problem was we all raced around the pool 10 laps flat out then float.. wasnt fun for some of us as we went flat out trying to finish first.. we did dead man floats...