2021 Lifeguard Course for Military Personnel

Santiago Anacleto • June 4, 2021

As part of a partnership between the 751 Squadron “Pumas”, the Portuguese Air Force and the ISN, a lifeguard course for military personnel was created. 

During the month of May, several members of the Portuguese Air Force attended the Lifeguard Course, held at Air Base No.6 in Montijo.


The objective of this course is to train military personnel in the skills of lifeguards, ensuring that all trainees are in the most physically and psychologically fit condition and providing them with the skills and techniques necessary to carry out their mission.

After training in closed swimming pools, the trainees move to the sands of Air Base No.6 in Montijo and face the cold temperatures of the Tagus River (Rio Tejo) while carrying out the various exercises.

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The 751 Squadron provides, in the first phase, support for a resistance exercise where trainees will be positioned underneath the EH-101 Merlin, while it hovers at a certain altitude, so that they can feel the effects of the downwash.

In the final phase of the course, 751 participates again by carrying out recovery exercises of the trainees, using the winch.

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