WATER CONFIDENCE TRAINING

Elevate your team’s professional resilience and life-saving, aquatic expertise with WCT’s tier one training programs.

  • Is your team collectively responsible for making critical, split-second, life-or-death decisions?

  • Do you need a private course with team-specific training and flexible scheduling?

  • Do you require specialized training focuses such as open water operations or other mission-specific skills?

ELigible Participants

If YES, this TRAINING is for you.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Basic

  • Three 8-hour days

    • Foundational Swim Training & Unconventional Pool Fitness

    • CO2 tolerance & stress inoculation

    • Training scenarios that mirror real-world challenges

    • Victim recovery & team building

    • Medical training

    • Pushing beyond comfort zones to confront reactive survival instincts

    • Developing effective responses for high-pressure environments

Intermediate

  • THREE DAYS

  • Everything in our BASIC training package, plus:

    • More complex scenario-based victim recovery

    • Advanced medical training

    • Elaborate team building drills

    • Overall elevated sense of water competence and ability

Advanced

  • Five 8-hour, aquatic center days +

    Three, 8-hour, open water days

  • Everything in our INTERMEDIATE training package, plus:

    • Open water swimming techniques

    • Open water victim rescues

    • Personal watercraft manipulation and rescue training

    • Open water medical training

BASIC TRAINING

Our three day, BASIC training program sharpens aquatic skills and resilience utilizing our core training methods. Participants receive initial assessments, targeted coaching, skill-building exercises and medical training to boost physical abilities, mental toughness, and readiness for high-stakes scenarios.

TRAINING HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

  • Foundational Swim Training & Unconventional Pool Fitness

  • CO2 tolerance & stress inoculation

  • Training scenarios that mirror real-world challenges

  • Victim recovery & team building

  • Medical training

  • Pushing beyond comfort zones to confront reactive survival instincts

  • Developing effective responses for high-pressure environments

CoURSE LENGTH

3 day course // 8 hour days

Training InCLUDEs

  • Preparatory course materials & syllabus

  • WCT gear

  • Initial and Final Assessments

Certification Qualifications

All skills will be taught and developed throughout the Training

Drownproofing sequence:

  • 5 minutes bobbing, 2 minutes floating, 100m travel, 5 front flips, 5 backflips 

Rescue sequence: (Must be completed in under 10 minutes)

  • 25m underwater, 100m freestyle swim, 2:30 minute hands-up tread, 100m freestyle swim, deep end subsurface recovery of unconscious victim - 25m contact tow with victim

Final FTX

  • Classified

WCT ensures that every course is customized to enhance your team’s readiness, confidence, and expertise in aquatic environments.

CORE TRAINING METHODS

Functional Swimming

Trains and strengthens proper swim techniques, including freestyle, combat side stroke, fin swimming, and lifesaving drills. This core training method supports participants understanding of recreational activities like triathlons, wind & water sports, and boating safety.

Functional swimming techniques for first responders during water confidence training

Unconventional Fitness

Focused weight training and pool sprints elevate stress responses, build resilience, and strengthen team dynamics with drills and scenarios. The program fosters individual strength, team building through joint pool drills, and equipment recommendations.

Participants engaging in unconventional fitness training with sandbags and weighted carries.

Water Confidence

Develops the ability to stay calm and perform under pressure by using breathwork, visualization, and targeted aquatic drills to enhance control in high-stakes environments. Drills support confidence and stress inoculation, ensuring 100% application to real-world performance.

Participants practicing underwater rescue techniques during water confidence training.

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