At this level, students start developing good attitudes and safe practices around the water. The objective of Level II is to give students success with fundamental skills. Students learn to float without support and to recover to a vertical position. The objective of Level III is to build on the skills in Level II by providing additional guided practice. Students learn to coordinate the front crawl and back crawl, elementary backstroke, and the fundamentals of treading water.
Students also learn rules for safe diving and begin to learn to dive from the side of the pool.
As in all levels, additional safety skills will be learned. The objective of Level IV is to develop confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills. Breaststroke and sidestroke and the basics of turning at a wall will be introduced. The objective of Level V is coordination and refinement of key strokes. The butterfly, open turns, the feet-first surface dive, and springboard diving will be introduced.