Waka Ama NZ would like to share with you all our updated and new online foundation learning course Waka Ama Safety.
For more information and to enrol, head to the Coastguard, boating education website: https://www.boatingeducation.org.nz/courses/61/waka-ama-safety/
We encourage you to share and promote this with your club membership. Please note, once a learner has enrolled and paid, they will be sent their login details via email.
Learn essential waka ama safety knowledge and skills to implement. Focus is on safety equipment, rigging and launching waka, safety practices, rules and regulations, righting waka, communication procedures, conditions, and navigation tools.
This is an online self-directed learning course that may take approx. 2 hours to complete. With 12 weeks to complete from enrolment.
This course is valued at $30, however, with the generous funding provided by Maritime NZ through Waka Ama NZ we are able to offer this course at $10 to everyone.
We would encourage all of our waka ama community to complete this course; paddler, non-paddler, coach, parent, kaitūao, supporter, teacher or whānau - being safe is important.