An Eagle scout from Troop 73 Holliston
organized and carried out a project that involved Clearing trails,
and creating a camping area at the pond in the Brentwood area in
Holliston.
In order to earn the Eagle Scout rank a scout must:
-Earn 21 merit badges including the 15 in this series,
-Progress through all the previous ranks each of which has it's own
set of requirements.
-Serve a minimum of six months in a leadership position
-Plan, organize, and lead other scouts in an approved service
project which benefits the community.
-Pass an Eagle board of review.
SWIMMING
Requirements:
- Discuss the prevention and treatment for health concerns that
could occur while swimming, including hypothermia, dehydration,
sunburn, heat exhaustion, heatstroke, muscle cramps,
hyperventilation, spinal injury, stings and bites, and cuts and
scrapes.
- Do the following:
- Identify the conditions that must exist before performing CPR
on a person. Explain how to recognize such conditions
- Demonstrate proper technique for performing CPR using a
training device approved by your counselor.
- Do the following:
- Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
- Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water over your
head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop,
turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting
place.
- Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or
leg, reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and
objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when
a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how
a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
- Tell what precautions should be taken for a safe trip
afloat.
- successfully complete the BSA swimmer test. Jump feet first
into water over your head in depth, swim 75 yards in a strong
manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke,
breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy,
resting backstroke. The 100 yards must be swum continuously and
include at least one sharp turn. After completing the swim, rest by
floating.
- With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as
tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately
30 feet from shore in deep water).
- Demonstrate survival skills by jumping feetfirst into deep
water wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt,
and long-sleeved shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate the shirt,
and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove and
inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated
pants for support, then show how to reinflate the pants while still
afloat.
- Swim continuously for 150 yards using the following strokes in
good form and in a strong manner: front crawl or trudgen for 25
yards, back crawl for 25 yards, sidestroke for 25 yards,
breaststroke for 25 yards, and elementary backstroke for 50
yards.
- Do the following:
- Float faceup in a resting position for at least one
minute.
- Demonstrate survival floating for at least five minutes.
- While wearing a properly fitted personal floatation device
(PFD), demonstrate the HELP and huddle positions. Explain their
purposes.
- Explain why swimming or survival floating will hasten the onset
of hypothermia in cold water.
- In water over your head, but not to exceed 10 feet, do each of
the following:
- Use the feetfirst method of surface diving and bring an object
up from the bottom.
- Do a headfirst surface dive (pike or tuck), and bring the
object up again.
- Do a headfirst surface dive to a depth of at least 5 feet and
swim underwater for three strokes. Come to the surface, take a
breath, and repeat the sequence twice.
- Do ONE of the following:
- Demonstrate selection and fit of mask, snorkel, and fins;
discuss safety in both pool and open-water snorkeling.
- Demonstrate proper use of mask, snorkel, and fins for
underwater search and rescue.
- Describe the sport of scuba diving or snorkeling, and
demonstrate your knowledge of BSA policies and procedures relating
to that sport.
- Racing dive from a pool edge or dock edge (no elevated dives
from racing platforms or starting blocks)
- Racing form for 25 yards on one competitive stroke (front
crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, or butterfly)
- Racing turns for the stroke that you chose in 8b(2), OR, if the
camp facilities cannot accommodate the racing turn, repeat 8b(2)
with and additional stroke.
- Describe the sport of competitive swimming.
- Following the guidelines set in the BSA Safe Swim Defense, in
water at least 7 feet deep, show a standing headfirst dive from a
dock or pool deck. Show a long shallow dive, also from the dock or
pool deck.
- Do the following:
- Explain the health benefits of regular aerobic exercise, and
explain why many people today do not get enough of the beneficial
kinds of exercise.
- Discuss why swimming is favored as both a fitness and a
therapeutic exercise.
- Write a plan for a swimming exercise program that will promote
aerobic/vascular fitness, strength and muscle tone, body
flexibility, and weight control for a person of Scout age. Identify
resources and facilities available in your home community that
would be needed for such a program.
- Discuss with your counselor the incentives and obstacles for
staying with the fitness program you created in requirement 10c.
Explain the unique benefits that could be gained from this program,
and discuss how personal health awareness and self discipline would
relate to your own willingness and ability to pursue such a
program.
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