If you're at least 15 and want to sharpen your leadership skills and show the world what you can do, you can become a waterfront lifeguard. This class teaches the skills to prevent, recognize and effectively respond to aquatic emergencies at a pool or a nonsurf waterfront facility like a lake or a beach.
American Red Cross training makes learning fun and easy. Through classroom learning and hands-on practice, you'll learn:
- Surveillance skills to help you identify behaviors of swimmers, distressed swimmers and active or passive drowning victims
- General procedures and rescue skills for an emergency occurring in the water or on land
- The components of an emergency action plan
- First aid training and professional rescuer CPR
- Skills used in special rescue situations, such as missing person procedures and cold-water rescue
- Professional lifeguard responsibilities including interacting with the public and addressing uncooperative patrons
- The value of behaving in a professional manner
Cost: Varies by Provider
Course Code: HSAQU403
Length: Five 9-hour days
PREREQUISITES
Minimum age of 15; Swim 550 yards (about 500 meters) continuously; 200 yards front crawl using rhythmic breathing; 200 yards breaststroke using pull breathe, kick, glide; 200 yards front crawl, breaststroke or combination of both; starting in the water, swim 20 yards using front crawl or breaststroke, surface dive 7-10 feet, retrieve a 10-pound object, return to the surface, swim 20 yards back to the starting point with the object and exit the water without using a ladder or steps, within 1 minute, 40 seconds; swim 5 yards, submerge and retrieve three dive rings placed 5 yards apart in 4-7 feet of water, resurface and swim 5 yards to the side of the pool.
CERTIFICATION
Lifeguarding/Waterfront/First Aid: 3 years; CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer: 1 year
| Day | Date | Time | Location | Language | Register |
| Fri | Aug 6 | 8:00 am – 9:00 pm | Whitestone Booster Civic Association | English | aquaticsolution@aol.com |
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| Mon | Aug 9 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm | Long Island HS Pool | English | karyl19@yahoo.com |
| Tue | Aug 10 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm | |||
| Wed | Aug 11 | 8:00 am – 8:00 pm | |||
| Thu | Aug 12 | 8:00 am – 8:00 pm | |||
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