Conhecimentos sobre a sobrevivência aquática e a intervenção do professor de educação física na prevenção de afogamentos.

Abstract

This research deals with drowning and the main forms of prevention. Considering that this topic is rarely addressed as content in universities and in academic work in the field of Physical Education. This monograph seeks to investigate, in the literature, knowledge related to aquatic survival skills and drowning prevention practices, for the intervention of Physical Education teachers in children's swimming classes. To this end, it is necessary to understand the historical processes related to man's first contacts with the liquid environment, verify the contributions of swimming and adaptation to the liquid environment for the development of aquatic survival skills, investigate the occurrences of drowning and the importance of aquatic prevention and present how the Physical Education teacher can intervene in the prevention of drownings. A bibliographical research was then carried out, based on investigation using the Positivist Method, with a qualitative approach. Therefore, it appears that the child must first learn how to adapt to the liquid environment, and then swim followed by rules and techniques, as the main victims of drowning are aged between 1 and 24 years. This requires the realization that prevention is the most effective tool and professionals in the field must contribute to reducing the childhood mortality rate, helping with preventive recommendations, safety measures and mainly, teaching the necessary aquatic skills.

Keywords: adaptation to the liquid environment; drowning; aquatic survival; drowning prevention; physical education teacher.