ROOTED SPORTS / ACTIVITY
ROOTED PROGRAM • PRACTICAL ACCESS / REAL SKILLS / PATHWAYS
Cold-water awareness, sighting, entry and exit skills, visibility and supervised progression beyond the pool.
SPORT • ACCESS • SAFETY • EQUIPMENT • PATHWAYS • PARTNERS
One activity. One clear system. The right gear, instruction, access and contributors around it.
Each ROOTED sport page is built around access, safety, shared equipment, practical skill and a pathway forward—not just participation.
ROOTED Open-Water Swimming adds the realities that pool-only training cannot: cold water, waves, visibility, sighting, safe entry/exit and support systems.
Wetsuits, goggles, bright caps, tow floats, thermal changing gear, marker buoys, support craft and safe, supervised swim zones.
Open-water sport, triathlon crossover, waterfront safety, lifeguarding, coaching and cold-water competence.
OUTREACH + ACTIVE CONTRIBUTORS
Names shown here may include organizations in outreach, active discussion, technical contribution or confirmed participation. ROOTED will only describe a company as a sponsor once support is actually committed.
Outreach = contacted or targeted. Contributor = providing useful input or access. Sponsor = committed support.
Current network for this activity:
Evidence-backed relationship state: Swim BC has provided substantive human system-capacity guidance. Lifesaving Society BC & Yukon has been contacted without a human reply evidenced. Blueseventy Canada, Swim Secure Canada / Podium Imports and Atlan remain research/reference routes because no direct ROOTED relationship is evidenced. No partnership, sponsorship or delivery commitment is implied.
Equipment brands, operators, associations, coaches, technicians and local experts can all contribute to an activity page.
Sponsor status will be updated as commitments are confirmed.
Individual sport pages are being expanded from the ROOTED Snow, Water, Bike and Field systems.
Want to bring this activity into a school or district? See the ROOTED Schools model and B.C. district directory.
ROOTED is still being developed with educators, qualified instructors, operators, safety professionals and community partners. If you know this work, bring the useful stuff.
TALK TO ROOTEDSCHOOLS + DISTRICTSDistricts and schools: rootedcanada.org/schools
FIND A SCHOOL DISTRICTrootedcanada.org/programs