by brb » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:14 pm
I do not pretend to know anything about the training of life guards. However, having experienced the sad events of young unknown lad having died in a swimming pool, I offer the following life lessons from my experience.
These are my four own personal observations:
1. The concentration of a life guard is paramount. It takes a few seconds for things to go wrong and a few minutes for it to become a life and death situation. If a life guard is not being changed at regular intervals then question the level of concentration, in these usually warm and humid environments.
2. Heed particular caution in packed swimming areas.
3. Observe your child at all times if presence of a wave machine.
4. Inflatables offer a false sense of security and can in fact cost you your life in a bathing area - to many inflatables can hide a drowning person, floating just under the surface of the water.
Any combination of 2, 3 & 4 combined with a life guard lacking concentration or maybe just not seeing an incident can be fatal, when an unexpected situation arises.
Sorry but that is reality and an experience that will certainly live with me forever.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.