​Lifesaving sport was originally introduced to encourage lifeguards to improve the essential physical and mental skills required when saving lives in an aquatic environment. It covers the act of rescue, resuscitation and first aid.
The sport is split into two main components – Speeds and SERCS

SERCS

SERC stands for Simulated Emergency Response Competition - these give you a chance for you to put your first aid training into action!
You will be part of a team of four Warwick lifesavers and together, you will face an unknown emergency scenario. The team (under direction of a pre-designated 'captain') will be tested on how well they can work together to treat all the casualties (actors) in the best way possible with the equipment provided and within a two minute time limit. This may involve (but is in no way limited to):
  • bandaging bleeding limbs (fake blood of course)
  • performing CPR
  • using a defibrillator/ AED
  • dealing with heart attacks, electric shocks
  • treating sea creature stings
  • rescuing drowning casualties
  • treating a range of medical conditions including asthma, diabetes, severe anaphalatic shock, epilepsy, and angina
  • and much much more!
As if that wasn't enough to get your lifesaving minds working, further complexity is added to the scenarios by placing them in a variety of challenging settings, such as:
  • boat and building fires
  • car crashes
  • chemical lab malfunctions
...and the list goes on - the only limit is imagination!
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SERCs give lifesavers a glimpse of what a real-life emergency scenario might look like, and equip them with the ability to handle such situations outside of a competition - at a time that might actually save someone's life!
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SPEEDS

​Speeds involves competitive swimming races with a lifesaving twist!
The speeds events at our university league competitions consist of three relays, in which you compete in your team of four:
  1. Swim and Tow Relay
  2. Line Throw Relay
  3. One of either the Manikin Relay, Obstacle Relay, Medley Relay or the infamous 'Pool Lifesaver' relay.
These are great fun for people of any swimming ability, and include towing your teammates, diving under obstacles, swimming with fins and towing 'Bobs' - orange manikins.
Other competitions dedicated to just Speeds events (such as the RLSS UK National Speed Championships) are attended each year by some of our members - this is an opportunity to showcase your speeds skills in both relay and individual events. Warwick's participation in these competitions has even resulted in two of our members being selected to compete for their countries in the Commonwealth Championships this year!

Want to see some videos?

Here is a promo video made by the club in 2018:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PfTezPH8nA
(The training times are out of date)
This video shows the speeds events involved with Lifesaving made by The World Games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrOD3yczSIA
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