BENEFITS OF WATER-BASED REDUCING AND PREVENTING
RECREATIONS
1. Improves one's
cardiorespiratory endurance
and aerobic energy production
2. Perfect in testing and
regulating one's physical
fitness
3. Help in toning the body
4. Improves one's mental and
emotional condition
5. Improves social interactions
HAZARDS OF WATER-BASED
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Physical Hazards
include drowning and injuries. Slipping on wet
surfaces and discarded shards of glass and
cans in polluted bodies of water can also
cause injury. Lastly, exposure to cold, heat
and sunlight can also pose hazard threats.
Microbial Hazards
Contaminated water puts people at risk for
infections that can cause diseases.
Chemical Hazards
Water contamination because of chemicals also
poses serious threats to participants of water-
based recreations.
HAZARDS
On Drowning and Injuries
1. Teaching participants of water-
based recreations about the risks.
2. Informing about the basic life
saving and first aid techniques
3. Vigilant supervision must also be
encouraged.
4. To make participants comfortable
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with water, they must be taught how
to swim
5. Installing fences and other safety
devices
AQUATIC
On Infections and Microbial
Risks RECREATIONAL
1. The WHO encourages effective
sewage discharge procedures to
be set up. ACTIVITIES
2. Swimming pool management
must also apply only the
appropriate levels of chlorine and
other disinfectants on pools.
3. Swimmers must be encouraged
to demonstrate good hygienic BY:
behavior and pre-swim showering DOREENE ANGEL ANDRES
in swimming pools.
JOVENCIO RASAY JR.
On Chemical Exposure DAVE CARLO SACBIBIT
1. Monitoring and regulating KEITH PASCUA
industrial effluents are the key
solutions.
2. Pre-swim showering and good
hygienic behavior should be
observed by participants.

LEISURE
is time spent for activities not related to work. It is
your free time, that period when you do not have
to perform obligations such as household chores,
school work or office tasks
SURFING
is a surface water sport which involves
a person called surfer, riding, ocean
waves using a special board called
surfboard.
WATER AEROBICS
aerobics exercises performed in water.
It is the best way to enjoy the water if
you are not an able swimmer.

RECREATION
is one excellent means of spending leisure time. It is
an activity that usually requires physical engagement
done for enjoyment and fun.

Examples of Recreational Activities WAKEBOARDING FREE DIVING

is another type of surface water sports is a form of underwater diving wherein
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which involves a person commonly the individual performing it relies on his
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called wakeboarder-moving over the own ability to hold his or her breath
Singing Sports
surface of a body of water while riding underwater until resurfacing. It does
a special board called wakeboard. not involve the use of any breathing
apparatus.
WATER - BASED
RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES
SWIMMING
is propelling the body in
the water through the
SNORKELING
combined movements of
legs and arms while
is swimming on or through a body SCUBA DIVING
floating. of water wearing a snorkel, which is involves the use of a breathing system,
comoosed of a mask and a tube. specifically, a scuba (a self-contained
KAYAKING underwater breathing apparatus).
is propelling a small boat
called kayak by paddling
a double-bladed oar
paddle.