Developments – Friends of Sea Point Pavilion

Jan 2020

The NSRI volunteer Pop-up Survival Swim instructors were at the Sea Point swimming pool on Saturday February 1 giving free lessons to children who wanted to learn to be safe in water or improve their swimming skills. Six instructors helped 55 children with skills ranging from controlling their breathing to floating.

Thanks to the Friends of the Sea Point Pavilion and the CoCT Sea Point Pavilion Swimming Pool staff for working with the NSRI and especially to the Sea Rescue volunteers who gave up their Saturday morning to help children improve their swimming ability.

Dec 2019

The FSPP are working with Sea Rescue to present ‘Pop-up’ Survival swimming classes for patrons of the Sea Point municipal pool. The initiative is aimed at up-skilling children’s swimming ability using volunteers who are trained by Sea Rescue to teach the basics of surviving an unexpected submersion in deep water. A diverse group of volunteers from the FSPP, Camps Bay High School, Clifton Surf Lifesaving, Sea Rescue Table Bay and others who heard about the initiative, met at the pavilion for three weekends before the 2019 summer school holidays and gave just over 120 children highly focused in water survival swimming training. The twenty minute lessons are geared to teach children how to control their breathing, orientate themselves in the water, float on their back and then swim to safety. The free lessons will resume in 2020 after the school holidays.