Life Saving

I knew coming here that we would be training to be lifegaurds, beach life gaurds to be spesific. I didn’t think that the “beach” part would make any difference, boy was I wrong.

To be a beach life gaurd you must have all the life gaurd training, including: First aid training, be able to swim and being able to jump in, tow someone out and then administer CPR. Now to be a beach life gaurd you have to add a lot of training in open water. which means wet suits and frezzing cold, relentless waves that just wont leave you alone.

You also need to be able to swim out with a surf board/peterson tube/back board and use it to save someone. we are also getting trained in all the releses so that when a drowning person grabs hold of you the only floting object around, you can esscape and not drown.

so thats what we did this week we swam and surfed, we towed and released and we ran up and down the beach in and out of the water with surf boards while yelling to eachother.

oh and a ray swam under my surf board while we were out!

~ by allieandelizabethinireland on October 12, 2008.