Lifeguards. The Olympic swimming pool has lifeguards, just in case someone like Michael Phelps, winner of 18 gold medals, needs to be rescued.
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Caldwell said lifeguards were urging people to leave the beach.
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Once, lifeguards ran along the shoreline, alone or in groups.
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Lifeguards were also associated with a 33% lower drowning rate.
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After every recovery exercise, the lifeguards' blood was tested again.
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"Encinitas lifeguards here along with the state park lifeguards, we warn people excessively throughout the year... we tell people over and over and over to stay back from these naturally eroding cliffs," he said.
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That's right, they have lifeguards in case Olympic swimmers need saving.
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Lifeguards pulled her out and saw deep cuts on her leg.
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"I just had a bunch of lifeguards around me," Burgess said.
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It was hovering so close that the lifeguards called the police.
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Joseph Szabo photographed the lifeguards at Jones Beach for 25 years.
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Dwayne Johnson leads his team of bodacious lifeguards onto streaming platforms.
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She was treated by lifeguards and taken to Nemours Children's Hospital.
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Waiting until the last hopeful minute, lifeguards finally declared the water unsafe.
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Next time you feel bored at work, think about the Olympics lifeguards.
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Lifeguards saved over 48,000 people from the strong currents just last year.
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Lifeguards said the warnings were likely to remain in place until Monday.
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Pictured here hauling a tree, the breed is historically full of lifeguards.
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During the season, lifeguards are stationed on the beaches from 10 a.m.
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"Lifeguards are not as cool as they used to be," he said.
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They also worked as lifeguards, which required running as part of training.
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Lifeguards treated 107 jellyfish stings Saturday, and a staggering 523 on Sunday.
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Nighttime is when the lifeguards go home, and the sharks come out.
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Near the beach boardwalk, I spoke with shop workers, lifeguards and beachgoers.
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We always heed the warnings of Volusia County lifeguards and Beach Patrol.
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On Thursday, lifeguards also spotted two sharks near Conniver Pavilion in New Jersey.
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According to the Daily Mail, owners Rian and Melissa serve as Nathan's lifeguards.
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Dieterman said lifeguards warned people to stay out of the water through Monday.
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Even lifeguards on the hardest-hit stretches of shoreline are wearing gas masks.
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Even the lifeguards seem to be a part of the well-oiled machinery.
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Lifeguards, for example, are bound by their jobs to save people from drowning.
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At the time, I was working at a waterpark with 60 other lifeguards.
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"Baywatch" premiered in 1989 and followed a group of lifeguards in Los Angeles.
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Until then, lifeguards who took the test could wear whatever swimwear they wanted.
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Lifeguards found both after the father also failed to reemerge from the water.
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Lifeguards on Jet Skis zipped through the waves, shooing stragglers back to shore.
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Behind the scrims are a chorus of lifeguards, six men and one woman.
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Lifeguards climbed down from their observation tower to rush into a rescue boat.
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Summer movies Pirates, aliens and lifeguards come to the big screen this month.
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And surfers cannot count on being rescued by lifeguards; they left hours ago.
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The tour guides are certified beach lifeguards with first aid training and powerboat licenses.
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Lifeguards treated 107 people for stings on Saturday, while 523 were treated on Sunday.
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The aircraft "went down pretty hard," one of the lifeguards, Don Dobby told Newsday.
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You can catch the trio playing lifeguards in Swimsuit for All's summer ad spot.
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It described a change in policy and that lifeguards weren't to police topless sunbathers.
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As the roll of retired lifeguards has grown, the city's obligation has become onerous.
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The hope is to encourage more young people to become lifeguards, coaches and swimmers.
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That impasse led to a government shutdown of all but essential services, including lifeguards.
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Lifeguards are on duty during beach season, from Memorial Day weekend through Sept. 8.
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Lifeguards said the incident highlighted the need for more people to respect the water.
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There are currently openings for lawyers, lifeguards, nurses, plumbers, music therapists and Jewish chaplains.
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People just do it anyway, because the lifeguards and Facebook don't do their job.
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Due to the intense weather conditions, Lifeguards had left their towers around 12:30 p.m.
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Seven lifeguards will patrol the city's beaches, which will have limited access during the festival.
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All beach parks were closed Friday, and lifeguards are not using towers for safety reasons.
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Down near the beach, there's a deteriorating structure once used by lifeguards to store equipment.
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"In the future, most of the lifeguards will be replaced by the robot," said Zhang.
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Madrid is training more lifeguards to deal with the rising numbers, coastguard union officials say.
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"People are interested and want to see them, asking lifeguards about the sharks," Reynolds said.
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Some witnesses are saying that lifeguards responded too slowly in coming to the man's aid.
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The lifeguards bark wave orders into their radios, as though they're ordering up a burger.
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The lifeguards are hidden behind Greg Emetaz's video design — mostly waves, book covers and ephemera.
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Though lifeguards carry cellphones now, the basic struggle between people and sea remains the same.
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It also recently began offering $500 signing bonuses to its lifeguards, bus drivers, and housekeepers.
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Within minutes, lifeguards piloted the drone to the men and dropped an inflatable life preserver.
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The lifeguards' average age was 24 and they all wore wetsuits during the mock rescues.
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Australia Diary He thought it was a fight, then the two Perth lifeguards showed up.
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He noted that Australia relied on volunteers for many crucial services, including lifeguards at beaches.
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The software developed by Professor Blumenstein's team could soon become a vital tool for lifeguards.
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"His friend saved his life … and then we the lifeguards helped keep him alive," said McNulty.
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"Follow the lifeguards' instructions and signal them if you see someone in trouble," the IAAPA says.
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Over 80% of rescues by beach lifeguards result from swimmers who are trapped in the current.
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Magnini helped Benedetto onto a nearby float until lifeguards arrived to take him back to shore.
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It included hiring more lifeguards, studying the river bottom, and possibly pumping sand, among other things.
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And we'll be here if you get into trouble, standing by like lifeguards at the pool.
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Out there, we were unwatched by lifeguards, sunning and snogging in glorious privacy right out in public.
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He said she had deep cuts on her leg when lifeguards pulled her out of the water.
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Lifeguards spotted the man about 15 minutes later in the water and pulled him from the ocean.
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Deutsch is raising private funds to cover $400 per day in costs for lifeguards and other staff.
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Thankfully, beachgoers reacted quickly, bypassing selfies to call in marine rescuers and lifeguards to assist the animal.
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I swam in the sea in the morning with two lifeguards all to myself in high winds.
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Lifeguards posted red flags along the white sands of Pensacola Beach, where swimming and wading were banned.
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Yet, the school has produced more than 218 working lifeguards in the past decade, Mr. Sullivan said.
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Both were ocean lifeguards on Long Island and helped start a lifeguard training program at Grover Cleveland.
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"We got a little situation," Mr. Lambert said calmly to his fellow lifeguards resting behind the stand.
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"On a normal day that would have taken our lifeguards a few minutes longer," Mr. Sheridan said.
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At least 10 tiger sharks are circling the whale, which is missing its tail, according to lifeguards.
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Images of several aspiring female lifeguards undergoing training shared online this week sparked a social media flurry.
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I read something today that a lot of people coming into this country are coming in as lifeguards.
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If that Baywatch revamp is looking for any extra lifeguards, we think we may have found your girl.
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These spots will soon have signboards warning visitors not to take selfies, along with lifeguards manning the waters.
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"If a large shark is identified, it could send an SMS or an image to lifeguards," Maire explained.
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Baywatch's lifeguards and villain Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra) melt the frost in the recently released videos from Paramount.
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In 2011, discontent about the high pay and rich pension plan of the lifeguards in Newport Beach, Calif.
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A group of aspiring junior lifeguards spend a summer training on Malibu Beach in this family-friendly comedy.
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The school offers classes that lead to Red Cross certification, and dozens of students become lifeguards every spring.
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But for many years, the city had problems finding enough young swimmers willing and qualified to become lifeguards.
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Strikers included teachers, lifeguards at beaches, security workers, construction workers -- and almost 14,000 people from the engineering sector.
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Overcrowded dinghies traveling from the coast of Turkey navigate choppy waters; Spanish lifeguards and volunteers help people ashore.
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But the YMCA that trained him in lifesaving (and where he paraded as a drum major) still hires lifeguards.
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City of London officials say "all lifeguards and managers at Hampstead Heath ponds have taken transgender awareness training courses."
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He began yelling at lifeguards and showing them his genitals, insisting he was a man, the police report said.
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These are in addition to those already available with lifeguards, EMTs on the beaches, and in fire department vehicles.
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The boat is expected to ease the burden of some 33 lifeguards stationed at the lake, say local papers.
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Lifeguards had people soak their injuries in bags of warm water to help ease the pain from the stings.
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Lifeguards receive "stop-the-bleed training," and visitors can now find tourniquets and hemorrhagic bandages right on the beach.
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After the sighting, Savedge said, lifeguards cleared the area for the next hour to make sure everyone was safe.
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"Every day, our lifeguards work on their shark sighting drills ... which focuses on identification, communication and notification," Reynolds said.
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The message would go back to the lifeguards if a shark enters, and they would decide what to do.
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To keep the racers on course, there are buoys and kayakers in the water and lifeguards along the shore.
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Lakewood aquatics manager Matt Demaline said Viglianco had completed the five-hour orientation for new lifeguards a day earlier.
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"I don't think that public pensions for summer lifeguards are appropriate," said Mr. Sweeney, a Democrat from Gloucester County.
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As they get larger, white sharks start feeding on bigger marine mammals, a factor lifeguards use to consider closures.
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No lifeguards have been on duty there since the end of beach season last month, a park official said.
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And the only people with the integrity, gumption and sleuthing skills to save it are Mitch and his lifeguards.
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Both pool areas were filled with families and kids splashing in the water with plenty of on-duty lifeguards.
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Lifeguards experimented with making boards of plywood and cork wrapped in painted canvas, followed by more modern fiberglass ones.
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How, and when, they wonder, did the piano playing, academic overachiever from a churchgoing family of lifeguards, go so wrong?
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Trained "playworkers" will act as lifeguards of a sort, watching closely but stepping in only when necessary or when asked.
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A Disney spokeswoman, Rebecca Peddie, said lifeguards were introduced on its fleet of four ships in the fall of 2013.
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City lifeguards—who volunteered for the task—would keep watch, while other attendees would play ping-pong and shoot hoops.
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Mitch (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), originated by David Hasselhoff, is the superhero-like, fearless leader of these do-gooder lifeguards.
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Even posting lifeguards on the beach to watch for unusual water motion could have given some people time to flee.
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Immediately after each rescue, the lifeguards had their blood tested to measure lactate levels and reported on their perceived exhaustion.
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The three lifeguards interviewed at the YMCA are either college-bound or plan to be, and part-time work suits them.
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"We'd like to applaud San Diego Fire & Rescue and San Diego Lifeguards for the professionalism during tonight's evacuation operation," Koontz said.
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My family had rented a house down on the Jersey Shore, and I'd become smitten with one of the lifeguards there.
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Bystanders and lifeguards on the beach ran to help, but Johnny insisted they save his kids first, Dawn told WECT-6.
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The plot of the film itself centers on a group of lifeguards who stumble upon criminal activity that threatens the Bay.
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And having lifeguards who aren't wearing much clothing makes a lot more sense than, say, Karen Gillan's character's outfit in Jumanji.
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He added that he didn't request government services such as lifeguards or trash collection while his family was using the beach.
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His character, Ronnie, has a body type that's much more typical of the average American than the rest of the lifeguards'.
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Lifeguards like Mr. Draper contribute 4 percent of their paychecks to the pension fund; the city is responsible for the balance.
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Seth Grossman, a lawyer and former city councilman, recalled noticing lifeguards on the city payroll in winter months and wondering why.
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"I said, wait a minute, for the last 15 years, we, a lot of lifeguards, were wearing jammers," Mr. Lester said.
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Ms. Ogintz said the lifeguards were added after a near-drowning on one of its ships left a child permanently disabled.
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While jellyfish stings can be painful, they are relatively easy to treat with white vinegar, which lifeguards usually have on hand.
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On Thursday, a day after the holiday, lifeguards opened the beach by the Beach 97th Street concession at about 10 a.m.
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The shark census is accessible by app, so lifeguards and surf instructors know what's in the water on any given day.
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The two clung to the rescue pod and made it to shore, where lifeguards were waiting, Surf Life Saving NSW said.
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Individual beaches often show the risk level with a colored flag, and lifeguards can tell you the conditions for the day.
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The swimmer was found unresponsive by lifeguards on a beach that had been closed to swimming shortly after being reported missing.
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Lifeguards used a boat to pull the bleeding woman, who had sustained multiple rib fractures and a pierced lung from the water.
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The lifeguards will have front-row seats to watch Olympic greats like Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Nathan Adrian and Missy Franklin compete.
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Lifeguards posted red flags along the white sands of Pensacola Beach, where swimmingand wading were banned amid high surf and dangerous conditions.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson takes on the David Hasselhoff role of Mitchell "Mitch" Buchannon, who heads up an elite group of lifeguards.
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Officials say lifeguards in Ocean City, Maryland, and others held the umbrella&aposs wooden pole while firefighters cut it off on Sunday.
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Three unidentified species of shark were spotted at another nearby beach on Sunday, with bathers called out of the water by lifeguards.
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He says the lifeguards are now a tourist attraction ... with people lining up to watch 'em skip their ass over the pool.
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Its residents are lounge singers, mustachioed lifeguards, palm-reading disco queens, and satin-clad hustlers who roam the hotel's beaches and grottos.
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Today it is operated by a team of volunteer lifeguards and doctors, and uses two dinghies in its search-and-rescue missions.
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Still, parks department officials called it inadvisable to swim in the Hudson, which has strong currents, no lifeguards and few access points.
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Those factors — combined with most lifeguards being off-duty for the season — darkened a stretch of summerlike beach days in late September.
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All the lifeguards did this three times over three days, each time following the mock rescue with one of the recovery approaches.
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In Season 2, they're still temping — the opener finds them trying to be lifeguards — while dealing with the repercussions of the robbery.
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Lucky for Hugh, there were plenty of other people around, including lifeguards, who assisted with the rescue and got Oscar to shore.
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"Two Italians, Six Lifeguards" opens with five older pieces, small monochromatic canvases that were painted by Ms. Rommel, 35, from 2010 to 2012.
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Lifeguards posted red flags along the white sands of Pensacola Beach, where swimming and wading were banned amid high surf and dangerous conditions.
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So, 75 lifeguards will be on site to monitor the various facilities for swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, water polo and white-water kayaking.
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Magnini, 35, quickly responded to the crisis, jumping into the water and retrieving Benedetto by keeping his head above water until lifeguards arrived.
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But this time, Federer was the one fighting the current and looking in dire need of one of those surf-defying Australian lifeguards.
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Jason Young, Orange County's lifeguards chief, said they received two reports of shark sightings in the Capistrano Beach area, the OC Register reported.
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It would have been easy to make Ronnie's character a comedic-effect side note for the rest of the lifeguards, but he wasn't.
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Fair enough, there's no lifeguard on duty, and even if there was, do you think many lifeguards are trained to rescue drowning bears?
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Country Cowgirl Kitten Set, $68, available at Dolls Kill LifeguardThanks to Baywatch (and The Sandlot's Wendy Peffercorn), lifeguards are bona fide sex symbols.
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Still, lifeguards are a common, if overlooked, sight at world-class swimming events, such as the recent United States swim trials in Omaha.
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Set at a public pool over the summer, it follows the daily lives of lifeguards who just want to have sex and party.
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Lifeguards in red T-shirts rent out Li-Los, kayaks and umbrellas, then serve as waiters at the tiny, improbable beach bar, Maracaibo.
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Join us for tales of music and road trips, curious lifeguards, and death, and kindness, plus, poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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First-year city lifeguards earn a minimum of $303 an hour and can work six days a week from June through early September.
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Lifeguards usually display warning flags on beaches to alert swimmers if there are hazardous conditions, so if you see one, stay on shore.
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A water park with lifeguards is a perfect fit: Grandparents appreciate the lazy river and family slides; grandkids love splashing the day away.
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And "with some very fast strokes," he reached the man and kept him afloat until the lifeguards caught up, Italian news outlets reported.
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Of course, not all jobs that go away are gone forever: Public beaches need lifeguards every summer, and Macy's hires elves around Christmastime.
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From a glass-fronted cabin on the dock, one of two lifeguards who are on duty throughout the year scanned the water watchfully.
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Over a total of 36 water rescues by the 12 lifeguards, average blood lactate levels rose roughly three-fold immediately after the rescue.
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Lifeguards had been on duty early Saturday because of two nearby events, and the response to the attack was "very short," Giles said.
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Upstairs, all the paintings in "Julia Rommel: Two Italians, Six Lifeguards" are rectangular, but Ms. Rommel, like Ms. Root, produced them in untraditional ways.
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In addition to the work of the lifeguards, McNulty credits the victim's friend for fighting off the crocodile and likely preventing a bigger tragedy.
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Messages can be relayed to lifeguards and emergency services, while megaphones attached to the drones blast out warnings when a dangerous species is spotted.
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Though the summer season is over, and lifeguards were not on duty, "sunny skies and warm temperatures" on Saturday attracted beachgoers, the AP reported.
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Though there are "No Swimming" signs and the resort employs lifeguards to keep people out of the water, there is no warning of alligators.
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"Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Ocean Rescue lifeguards became aware of the shark lurking in the water," Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokeswoman Erika Benitez said.
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Lifeguards at the beach made "several other rescues," according to 9 News, but Jackman's rep tells PEOPLE that all is well for the family.
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Magnini spotted 45-year-old Andrea Benedetto in distress off the shore of Cala Sinzias beach and beat the lifeguards to reach the man.
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While lifeguards rushed towards the distressed couple, they were beaten to the post by 37-year-old Magnini who helped Benedetto onto a raft.
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There are a variety of locations in the parks that require lifeguards, including Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon at Walt Disney World in Florida.
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Join us for tales of nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death, and kindness, plus, poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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He added that it was so hard to get to work on Monday that they couldn't open the pool — they didn't have enough lifeguards.
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Mr. Lambert said he would give the lifeguards free hot dogs in exchange for borrowing a rescue board during his break from the grill.
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Members of the Hong Kong Disneyland Cast Members Union went on strike, as did many lifeguards, forcing authorities to close some beaches and swimming pools.
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It's actually a law in Rio de Janeiro to have lifeguards present at swimming pools larger than 20 by 20 feet, according to the publication.
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But none have drawn such broad resentment as the realization that Atlantic City pays about $234 million a year to provide pensions for retired lifeguards.
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Lifeguards testing out new drone technology in Australia have saved two people stranded off the coast of New South Wales state, as spotted by Quartz.
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On days like this, with thousands of people within spray-reach of the ocean's fury, the lifeguards do as much crowd control as water rescues.
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And we'll stand by on the sidelines, like beadles or lifeguards, in case something goes wrong with your paperwork, with a recipe, with our technology.
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After those deaths, Crystal Howard, a spokeswoman for the parks department, implored New Yorkers to only go swimming in designated beaches with lifeguards on duty.
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When he got out of the pool, he shouted at lifeguards that he was a man and exposed his genitals to them, the report states.
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This helps him stay in shape for summers spent on Rockaway Beach, where he is friendly with the lifeguards who work at Beach 60th Street.
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There are many guards in their late 60s, including Paul Gillespie, 67, chief of lifeguards for the City of Long Beach, who oversees 170 guards.
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People climbed on roofs of nearby businesses and lifeguards were forced to sound the "shark alarm" three times, to get drunken revellers out of the water.
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Images of shark fins grazing the surface of murky ocean waters were replaced by slow motion shots of ripped, nearly naked lifeguards prancing across the sand.
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The law was drawn up with Atlantic City in mind, but lifeguards in several other Jersey Shore towns eventually discovered that it applied to them too.
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The suits are a distraction for lifeguards; and for kids who aren't great swimmers, they can be pretty dangerous — children can have trouble floating in them.
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Right before the attack, lifeguards at Haulover Beach in Miami immediately began blowing their whistles after spotting the shark in the water, according to Local 10.
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The lifeguards at the Rio Games have perhaps the best view in the house, as they are among the few people permitted on the pool deck.
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This time, he headed out with a Danish colleague and three Spanish lifeguards from Proem Aid, another volunteer group he had worked with many times before.
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Before jumping into the waters off Lesbos, Mr. Camps, 52, had already built a successful private company of lifeguards, monitoring beaches in four regions of Spain.
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"Warnings from lifeguards allow at best for a few extra minutes for evacuations, but of course they are better than no warnings at all," he said.
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Crystal Howard, a spokeswoman for New York City's Department of Parks and Recreation, said lifeguards at city beaches went off-duty for the season Sept. 10.
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Whenever he shot, he would check in with the lifeguards, ask them what was happening that day, how many swimmers they had pulled from the surf.
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Unlike other subjects in Mr. Szabo's work — typically teenagers on Long Island — the lifeguards appear without swagger or self-mythologizing; they are neither vulnerable nor libidinous.
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They also looked at regulations in 30 states in 2017 for things like lifeguards, rescue equipment, warning signs, tracking and reporting safety issues, and water quality.
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The water is 42 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, and the weather can change within minutes, with waves rising as high as 13 feet, the lifeguards said.
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The water is 42 degrees Fahrenheit, on average, and the weather can change within minutes, with waves rising as high as 13 feet, the lifeguards said.
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"The challenge for me was to save other people's lives and break down stereotypes," Christine Didmanidze, one of the new lifeguards, told local broadcaster First Channel.
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"They were able to get him free, swim him to safety and then trained lifeguards responded … and we administered first aid and called an ambulance," he continued.
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After the charity said nine had tried to swim ashore, Reuters footage showed another five people jump, although it was not immediately clear if some were lifeguards.
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According to NBC Washington, lifeguards said the sculptors are only known as Larry and Tom, and it took them about four hours to complete their satirical work.
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Tijuana lifeguards and firefighters rescue a man who was trying to cross to the United States through the sea in Playas de Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 227.
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Lifeguards on Hallandale Beach, about 18 miles (29 kilometers) north of Miami, discovered the shoreline littered with jellyfish, according to the city of Hallandale Beach's Facebook page.
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Another time a girl came up to her at the snack shack at the pool where she lifeguards and asked if she was that girl from TikTok.
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"On a normal day that would have taken our lifeguards a few minutes longer to reach the members of the public," Sheridan told the Sydney Morning Herald.
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The squad said swim club lifeguards and staff had freed all of the victims from the wreckage by the time EMS crews arrived just before 5 p.m.
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They're swapping seasonal jobs at frozen yogurt shops and as lifeguards for unpaid internships in career areas of interest to them or summer classes at local universities.
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Thankfully, Finlay was there with a birds-eye-view (captured in this pretty mesmerizing video) and informed the beach's lifeguards that there were sharks in the water.
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While some did little more than wet their ankles, others took advantage of the presence of many lifeguards to take a proper dive into the chilly waves.
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He is now back in touch with lifeguards in Los Angeles and Hawaii to see whether they can contribute to his work with refugees in the Mediterranean.
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And the pool din is punctuated by short, reprimanding whistles of orange-clad lifeguards keeping a watchful eye as their off-duty colleagues flirt on the sideline.
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Short-handed and forced to close off sections of beaches and shorten pool hours, the city resorted to recruiting lifeguards from the suburbs and even from overseas.
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If something goes wrong along the way, either with a recipe or our technology, we'll be standing by like the lifeguards watching the pipelines in Oahu, Hawaii.
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The lifeguards were eventually able to reach Bruder and haul him into the boat, but by that time, the young man was losing disastrous amounts of blood.
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Meanwhile, lifeguards, fish and game wardens, playground monitors, and even parking enforcement workers are classified as "Protective Service Occupations" – the same classification as firefighters, EMTs and police officers.
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"I saw first responders, and I saw lifeguards frantically digging people out of the debris," Jim Pepperdine, who lives near the area, told the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Alam's wife, an American expat named Vanessa Rude, provides English lessons to the young girls and some have even had the chance to train as lifeguards, TIME reported.
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Lifeguards can be seen ushering the last few surfers inland, while a separate video posted by Martin shows the bloody carcass of a seal floating in the water.
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He learned that lifeguards approaching retirement would paint boats and perform other off-season chores to increase the annual income that would determine the size of their pensions.
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But Wisconsin waterparks have had a tough time locking down enough lifeguards to support their operations in recent years – even with the added help of temporary visa-holders.
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Here's what else is happening: • Atlantic City pays about $1 million a year to provide pensions for retired lifeguards, and some auditors and legislators aren't happy about it.
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Most people do not have to work on this day, except the ones who hold absolutely crucial positions, like police officers, nurses, ice-cream-truck drivers, and lifeguards.
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Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell said lifeguards were out in force with bullhorns, some of them on jet skis, ordering people off the beach and out of the water.
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In New York City, that's when beaches are monitored by lifeguards, competition for park barbecues heats up, and tourists flock in (while many residents spend their weekends out).
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We dine and sit near "Worcester Beach"—a dismal patch of man-made water where it's illegal to swim and lifeguards outnumber residents—as Laetitia does a phone interview.
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Lifeguards at Pensacola Beach, located in the northwest part of Florida, set up purple warning flags along the beach to signal the presence of sea lice in the water.
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WHILE TESTING a drone to detect sharks off a beach in New South Wales last year, Australian lifeguards spotted two young men struggling to swim in the violent surf.
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We ask summer books to perform an Herculean task: Keep us entertained amid a million distractions — the beating sun, kids kicking up sand near your towel, Baywatch-esque lifeguards.
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"Beach-goers know that lifeguards won't let kids dig really deep holes in the sand, because a too-high "cliff" can collapse, burying someone in the hole," he said.
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Mr. Lester claims the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation wants to get rid of older lifeguards at Jones Beach State Park on Long Island.
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Los Angeles County Lifeguards still hold an annual fundraiser to raise money and awareness for breast and skin cancer, which they say has had an impact on their personnel.
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There are currently various job openings for positions including lifeguards, chefs, youth activities counselors, human resources managers, entertainers who want to work on a ship while traveling the world.
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In situations like these, risk managers are supposed to serve as corporate lifeguards, ready to whistle back dealmakers if they expose the company to unnecessary legal and reputational peril.
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The governor added that he didn't ask for any government services while they were at the residence, such as lifeguards or garbage collection, which were affected by the shutdown.
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There are lifeguards, though, lean summer kids with lazy tans, and to the north, rising from the low trees, towers built to defend the American coastline from Nazi subs.
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The beach will disappear, the McMansions will fill with water, the lifeguards will age and die and even the towers built to watch for Nazis will crumble and fall.
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Adrian Benepe, a former New York City parks commissioner, said it was difficult for the city to keep lifeguards patrolling beaches past the first week or two of September.
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She also gets to wear a slinky gold number when the lifeguards hit town and during a revealing post-movie gag reel about the film's stars and their wedgies.
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The Olympic swimming pool in Rio will operate under the careful watch of official lifeguards – because, you know, Michael Phelps might need to be rescued while working on his butterfly.
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If you swim at a public pool or body of water, you can ask lifeguards or town officials what kind of testing is done on the water, and how often.
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He developed the first nylon swimsuits, a commercial line of floating kickboards, the PVC rescue tube that is now largely used by lifeguards, and nearly a dozen other swimming products.
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As an adult, I understand the fantasy element of a show about hot lifeguards in sunny Los Angeles stopping crimes, being hot, falling in love, and being hot some more.
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Lifeguards launched the drone, steered it towards the swimmers and dropped a "rescue pod" into the water, where it expanded so the swimmers could grab it and swim to shore.
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The president of the New Jersey Senate, Stephen M. Sweeney, is calling for the repeal of an 88-year-old statute that created the pension system for Atlantic City's lifeguards.
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While earlier sunscreens provided purely physical protection (think the white cream that lifeguards put on their noses), most modern ones combine physical and chemical protection for aesthetic purposes, Kuritzky said.
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The deaths highlight the fact that most cruise lines do not have lifeguards at their pools, said Jim Walker, a maritime lawyer with the Miami-based law firm Walker & O'Neill.
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Since arriving on Lesbos from Denmark last September, Aldeen had helped set up Team Humanity—a group of volunteer lifeguards that patrolled the coast using a boat bought with donations.
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The statue simply honors Delawareans who helped the Confederacy, Mr. Eldreth said, like Washington Vickers, who went to fight with the South and later became one of Delaware's first lifeguards.
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Wisconsin's state legislature recently passed a bill that lowered the minimum age for lifeguards to 15 so that the state's many indoor and outdoor waterparks could keep their doors open.
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A very hunky Zac Efron and The Rock star as the famed lifeguards (did we mention they were hunky?) and from the looks of things, this won't be a serious drama.
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This photo of one, ennui-stricken lifeguard in Rio, which came from a New York Times article about the futility of lifeguards at the Olympics, has been competently paddling around Twitter.
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Until now, lifeguards and emergency responders could notify others of a shark sighting or incident only after the fact, according to Leslie Reynolds, chief ranger for the Cape Cod National Seashore.
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HONOLULU – Hawaii lifeguards rescued 13 people as powerful waves pounded the northern shores of the island of Oahu, kicking off what officials say is the most dangerous time of the year.
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According to the publication, the show based the design on the suits worn by real lifeguards in Southern California and then tweaked each one-piece to flatter each stars' body type.
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The couple, who are in their mid-30s and met as teenagers when they were lifeguards at a neighborhood pool in Toronto, were almost relieved to have an excuse to leave.
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For travelers, the labor shortage might mean lines at the front desk, rooms that aren't ready at check in, hotel pools without lifeguards, delayed maintenance and fewer on-site dining options.
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Up to 20 female lifeguards will start patrolling the country's crowded beaches on Saturday, joining a male-dominated rescue corps for the holiday season, Georgia's emergency management agency said on Friday.
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Johnson stars as Mitch Buchannon, the gung ho, post-Hasselhoffian leader of an elite SoCal squad of impossibly nubile lifeguards who take their jobs as seriously as J. Edgar Hoover's G-men.
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In December Shark Alert International will try equipping a helicopter and a drone with military-grade cameras that can "x-ray" the water, then send alerts to lifeguards and even surfers' watches.
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He said when he worked there, the other lifeguards would "ask me questions — because I really was the only white guy they really knew — about things that just startled me," Biden said.
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" Dr. Justin Sempsrott, executive director of Lifeguards Without Borders and medical director of International Surf Lifesaving Association, said Eden's case is "remarkable" and "shows future direction for rehabilitation after non-fatal drowning.
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Synopsis: Efron plays young recruit Matt Brody in "Baywatch," a film that follows a group of beautiful, if ego-driven, lifeguards as they work together to protect their beach from insidious criminals.
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Lifeguards still had to swim 100 yards in 1 minute 20 seconds or less, and they had to run a quarter-mile on dry land in less than 2 minutes 10 seconds.
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Then last week, the parks department agreed to open the beach in front of the Beach 973th Street concession area — but only when the tide conditions allowed lifeguards to do their job.
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The park is a typical Qatari business in that no Qataris work there: The park's manager, Mohammed Firdous Raj, is Malaysian, the lifeguards are Kenyan and other employees are Lebanese and Egyptian.
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It was only a few weeks after lifeguards had removed the buoy-strung rope that stretches across the water in the winter, restricting swimmers to a small area close to the dock.
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Since the attack, lifeguards have posted "Shark Sighted" and "No Swimming" signs along Hanalei Bay and will reassess the water Tuesday to determine if it's safe for swimming, the fire department said.
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Rip currents — often referred to, incorrectly, as riptides — kill more than 25.4 people in the United States every year, the United States Lifesaving Association estimates, and lifeguards save tens of thousands more.
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Alam said he hopes some of the young girls will be able to find work as lifeguards, a welcome alternative to entering into a child marriage – a common practice in the patriarchal nation.
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Footage taken by lifeguards at Cala Domingos beach shows the shark — later determined to be a 10-foot blue shark — swim toward the shore as panicked onlookers gather and watch from nearby rocks.
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Researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina, meanwhile, are testing shark-seeking drones in a scientific study that may one day give beach lifeguards a new eye in the sky.
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Organizers will also be implementing additional safety measures including bomb-sniffing dogs and searches, and have stationed 50 extra people at the entrance alongside 400 security personnel and multiple police, lifeguards, and firemen.
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With four slides, seven water attractions and seemingly countless lifeguards, the 324-room Kartrite Resort & Indoor Waterpark, which opened in Monticello, N.Y., in April, touts itself as the state's largest indoor water park.
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To get ourselves in the warm-weather spirit, we went to see "Baywatch," the new big-screen reboot of the 1990s TV series, starring Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron as crime-solving lifeguards.
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SYDNEY, Australia — A practice session for Australian lifeguards who were testing a new drone turned into a real rescue when the drone helped save two swimmers at a beach in New South Wales.
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All of the trappings of the ridiculous '90s TV show appear to be in place in this big-screen adaptation — including plenty of sexy lifeguards running in slow motion, bosoms and pecs all abounce.
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At the same time, Reynolds says lifeguards have been reporting an increase in visitors, recording more than 1 million annual beachgoers during the 10- to 12-week summer period in the past three years.
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The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports that emergency services officials say the lifeguards took about 2,800 preventative actions, such as stopping unprepared people from going into the ocean, in addition to the rescues on Friday.
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Upon receiving the command from one of the lifeguards, a wave operator named Matt goes to a drop-down menu on the screen of a Siemens-made control system and selects a wave profile.
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"Before we realized what had happened, the lifeguards and other people on the beach were holding the umbrella to stabilize because it was sticking out of her chest," beachgoer Laura Lathroum explained the Dispatch.
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The flags will start flying at some town beaches starting this Memorial Day weekend and appear on beaches administered by the National Park Service starting June 16, when those beaches are staffed with lifeguards.
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But the parks agency did not let him wear one in 2007, for the swimming test that lifeguards at Jones Beach are required to take every spring in order to remain on the staff.
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Many French beaches are staffed during the July-August peak holiday period with lifeguards and a small team of safety and health staff headed up by an officer from the CRS riot police department.
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Speaking of New York, we went to a high school in Queens that has an unusual distinction: It has trained hundreds of lifeguards for the city's public pools and beaches over the past decade.
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Members of the Aquazanies would later become lifeguards, famous swimmers, professional divers, and even a special agent with the F.B.I. New York Today is a morning roundup that is published weekdays at 6 a.m.
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States and local communities have implemented a wide range of policies to try to minimize drownings, including marking off designated areas for swimming and posting signs advising against swimming when lifeguards aren't on duty.
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The Pensacola Beach Lifeguards posted a warning to its Facebook page Tuesday, stating that purple flags were being flown at the beach to caution swimmers of the sea lice, which can cause rashes and irritation.
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"The people traffickers know that the lifeguards are going to come for them," said Estrada, whose vessel has rescued around 1,200 people so far this year, more than 80 percent of its total for 2017.
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He seems to be defending the culture at Jones Beach, where guys, and since the 1980s, gals, have signed on as lifeguards when they were teenagers and returned summer after summer, if only on weekends.
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By appearance, the Olympic lifeguards are of the same breed as those who coolly oversee the high jinks at the community pool and are prepared to dive in to rescue a struggling or sinking swimmer.
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Lifeguards returned to the same chair for decades, some traveling from professional careers in North Carolina or Boston: a couple weeks at the beach, then a couple weeks at home, then back to the beach.
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They joined a man with a sand-castle kit waiting beside the Rangers banner and the three lifeguards with tanned feet and no shoes huddled near a painting depicting a Rangers-Detroit Red Wings game.
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By the time the lifeguards had launched a rescue boat to save Bruder, the shark had severed both lower legs from his body, between ankle and knee, and had also bitten deep into his abdomen.
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State University of New York-Cortland 2016 graduate Jack Jakubek was participating in a fitness test for potential lifeguards at Pilgrim Lake in Orleans, Massachusetts, according to statements from the Orleans Fire Department and the University.
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It's sad because that movie will further ingrain in the minds of other people — especially aspiring lifeguards or trainers — that they couldn't possibly fit in and be considered capable or valuable in that field of work.
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Swim At Your Own Risk: Because most cruise lines don't provide lifeguards, children should never be allowed to swim without supervision, said Julie Danziger, a cruise specialist at the New York City travel consultancy Ovation Vacations.
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And yet, what is needed are some solid seawalls for where the largest waves of risk are likely to hit and some well-placed lifeguards where normal risks reside but only an errant swimmer needs saving.
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Mr. Camps decided to set up his own lifeguard company after standing among a group of helpless lifeguards, who could only watch from the beach as a teenager drowned off one of Barcelona's beaches in 1993.
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The Florida beachgoer, who was not named, was in the process of exiting the waters after warnings from lifeguards to evacuate the water at Haulover Beach, which is about 8 miles (12 kilometers) north of Miami Beach.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Baywatch," the California beach lifeguards saga that became a cultural phenomenon on television 28 years ago, is back on the big screen - and this time the men are jiggling as much as the women.
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Olsen says he expects local employers will find some hiring relief as a result of the bill, noting that many Wisconsin Dells facilities began recruiting 15-year-old lifeguards "immediately" after Walker signed the bill into law.
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"For travelers, the labor shortage might mean lines at the front desk, rooms that aren't ready at check-in, hotel pools without lifeguards, delayed maintenance and fewer on-site dining options," Karen Schwartz wrote for the Times.
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Only by working in a team can Matt's ravaged soul be redeemed, although I like him most when he points out—correctly—that the lifeguards aren't proper police officers and should stop behaving as if they were.
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The reason, officials said, was that so much sand had eroded off the beach there that the lifeguard chairs could not be set far enough back from the water to give lifeguards an adequate view of swimmers.
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" Kristen W says this beach is run by the MAN and also has a socioeconomic critique: "This could be a very lovely beach if it weren't for two things: obnoxious, nanny-state lifeguards and a high entrance fee.
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Despite not knowing how to swim, Lemus jumped into the water still wearing his clothes in an attempt to rescue the boy, who along with other relatives, were in an area without lifeguards, his daughter Jessica Ortiz said.
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In 2014 the Services Trade Council Union (representing housekeepers, lifeguards and other service workers) and Disney World agreed on wage increases for union members at its Orlando theme park to at least $10 an hour, starting in 2016.
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The original TV series is infamous for its slow-motion shots of female lifeguards running down the beach, but the poster for the upcoming film proves that this time around, they guys will experience just as much objectification.
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They wrote that Always Sunny episode where Charlie becomes a fake genius and played lifeguards in that waterpark episode, so it shouldn't be much of a leap for them to do an Always Sunny/Game of Thrones crossover.
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Despite Mayor Guardian's position, Mr. Draper, who served as the president of the bargaining unit for the union that represents the lifeguards, said he had been assured by representatives of the city that the pension plan was secure.
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Total employed in the US: 8,020What they do, according to O*NET: Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers make sure people are safe in amusement parks, whether they're in the pool or on the slopes.
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This production, directed by Sean Graney, invites its audience onto the stage, which has been transformed into a seaside resort, big enough to accommodate a cast of 10, a couple of lifeguards and a throng of movable theatergoers.
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"We got a second call an hour later to say it had ended up writhing on the sand and the lifeguards had put it back in the water but had subsequently returned to the shoreline," Felix told The Telegraph .
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Dozens of beachgoers and lifeguards battled to help a pod of pilot whales back into deeper waters after coming too close to the shore in Georgia earlier this week, although authorities said that three of the animals had died.
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The administration is also considering reversing its recent decision to increase by 35,000 the number of nonagricultural seasonal workers the U.S. brings in each year, such as landscapers, crab-pickers and lifeguards, two people familiar with the situation say.
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Jimmy said he earned $250,230 last summer working at a public pool in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and he hopes to be selected as an ocean lifeguard at Rockaway Beach, Queens, which many young lifeguards covet for its urban "Baywatch" scene.
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Upon hearing the girl's calls for help, the group of five immediately took action and held the girl above water until she could be taken out of the water by lifeguards, the Kern County Sheriff's Office said on Facebook.
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Learning to swim, not swimming alone and swimming in designated areas where lifeguards are on duty can all help prevent drownings regardless of what regulations might be in place, Smith, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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A 25-year-old man who drowned at a Washington water park might have been under water as long as 220 minutes before lifeguards spotted him in a 173- to 217-foot pool, according to a police report obtained by PEOPLE.
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The new photos show off 37-year-old Mama June's toned physique as she sports a fitted one-piece red bathing suit — similar to the female lifeguards in the iconic '90s series — and holds a red rescue buoy as a prop.
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Wangerland's tourist office has largely fenced in the beaches, added facilities, playgrounds and lifeguards, and has been charging visitors a 3-euro ($3.57) entry fee during the summer season, with the exception of residents and tourists of the town itself.
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A teenager died on Wednesday while swimming at Rockaway Beach in Queens in what officials said was the first drowning of the year at a public city beach, just days before lifeguards would take their posts for the summer season.
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The largest of the era, San Francisco's Fleishhacker Pool, held 10,000 swimmers at a time and was patrolled by lifeguards in rowboats; a swimmer could loll on the sandy beach, stroll the poolside deck or sit on a grassy hill above.
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According to the Orange County Register, the Laguna Beach Lifeguards and the law enforcement branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are investigating whether his poorly advised, partially decomposed lunch was in violation of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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This summer, there are lifeguards enjoying summer flings, and couples like Jerry Schackne, 84, and Theresa Luisi, 2002, one cabana court away from the Gordons, a widower and a widow who met last summer and have been behaving like lovestruck teenagers ever since.
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One Lifeguard, 66, Calls It Age Discrimination" (Grace Notes column, July 25), about Roy J. Lester, the veteran Jones Beach State Park lifeguard who refused to wear a Speedo, quotes him as saying lifeguards "used to be the gods of the beach.
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"Our staff, since we opened Schlitterbahn Kansas City, has demonstrated the highest dedication to safety, from the training of our lifeguards and ride operators, to ensuring all rides have operated in accordance with our strict protocols," the company said in a statement.
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"An experienced lifeguard knows when to go and when not to go" on a rescue, said Mr. Lambert, one of the oldest active lifeguards — the kind who still dash into the surf to rescue swimmers — at a public beach in the Northeast.
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Take the edge off the fall season by dipping into these sexy snaps of babes making waves as they lounge on the edge of some exotic bodies of water -- but be careful not to fall too hard ... there's no lifeguards on duty.
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David Hasselhoff is nowhere in sight (though don't be surprised if/when he turns up for a cameo); in his place, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson presides over the most elite team of lifeguards the world has ever seen, or so he would have you believe.
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Atlanta (Reuters) - Dozens of beachgoers and lifeguards battled to help a pod of pilot whales back into deeper waters after coming too close to the shore of the U.S. state of Georgia earlier this week, although authorities said that three of the animals had died.
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The city said in a statement that lifeguards requested the shutdown because "they are there to maintain safety and they can't do that when they have to worry about the crowds" that accompany the protest swims, according to a report from the Guardian on Thursday.
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The gathering was organized by a women's association from Marseille that had booked the park for a full day, told participants that male lifeguards would be present, and suggested that women wear swimsuits that fully covered their bodies, or at least from the knees to the chest.
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The Los Angeles County Lifeguard Association, which represented 120 full-time and 600 part-time lifeguards at the time, implemented programs in the 1990s to screen for skin cancer among its employees following the death of one lifeguard due to melanoma, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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The city's Department of Parks and Recreation has nearly 216,500 lifeguards working this year, enough to staff its eight beaches, which opened on Memorial Day weekend, as well as its 53 outdoor pools, which open in late June, said the department's first deputy commissioner, Liam Kavanagh.
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At Tobay — which is run by the Town of Oyster Bay and has about 60 guards covering a dozen stands — Mr. Lambert's fellow lifeguards have included the actor William Baldwin, of the Baldwin brothers, and the three Baldinger brothers who went on to play pro football.
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Spanning from 1989-1999, for 10 seasons Baywatch followed a group of attractive lifeguards prowling a crowded resort beach in Los Angeles County, CA. With its slightly raunchy reputation, Baywatch was known as a thinly-veiled excuse to show attractive people running in slow-motion in their bathing suits.
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One study has shown that people who work in swimming pools or spend a lot of time around them, such as lifeguards, have a higher level of airway issue symptoms in comparison with the general population—poolside workers showed more frequent work-related upper respiratory issues than administrative staff.
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"It was such a blatant attempt to get at older guys," Mr. Lester said, adding that after filing the lawsuit, he obtained internal memos in which parks agency officials worried that older lifeguards might not make it if they had to run across the beach for a rescue.
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The drone's pilot, a decorated veteran lifeguard for New South Wales, was able to Gert out to the swimmers' position, and drop the pod in a minute or two, which is at least a few minutes less than it would've taken to respond directly with actual flesh and blood lifeguards.
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But no: The film's director, Seth Gordon ("Identity Thief"), and its screenwriters, Damian Shannon and Mark Swift, have glommed "Baywatch" onto the theme of the moment: namely, that a bunch of good-looking SoCal lifeguards, devoted to keeping their beach a safe cool magical place, are just like — wait for it!
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The victim, identified by medical officials as 52-year-old Maria Korcsmaros, was pulled from the Pacific Ocean by lifeguards on a patrol boat on Sunday about 150 yards (meters) off the shore of Newport Beach after she was seen in distress, said Mary Locey, a spokeswoman for the city.
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Yet one would think that director Seth Gordon and a team of writers could at least have more fun riffing on its quirks, which they try to do with jokes about women looking as if they're running in slow-motion and the fact these lifeguards behave like cops, even though they're not.
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"The effectiveness of state safety laws and regulations has been demonstrated for other types of injury, so it is clearly plausible that state safety regulations for open-water areas, including requiring the presence of lifeguards, may lead to decreased drowning," said Dr. Gary Smith, president of the Child Injury Prevention Alliance in Columbus, Ohio.
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Heed these tips to stay safe in and around water: According to the American Red Cross, even if you're a strong swimmer, always swim with a buddy, preferably with lifeguards present Avoid using alcohol or drugs before or while swimming, diving, or supervising others swimming Understand the unique risks of the water environment you are in.
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Reunited 35 years later, on New Year's Eve 1999, to perform at Sandy Shores and raise money for the residents' legal fees as they decide whether to sell or fight, the Bikinis sing the old songs, reminisce about sexy lifeguards and muse on their days trying to follow their idols, the Shangri-Las, to the top of the charts.
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They may dream of becoming professional surfers and lifeguards one day, but what's more important is that they have been given the chance to regain part of their childhood and attain a basic education (a crucial factor in delaying the age at which they'll marry — after all, this society is one in which child marriage is all too common).
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This was the scene the other day at one of the popular lifeguard training classes at Grover Cleveland, in Ridgewood, Queens — a high school that may not get the public recognition the city's more prestigious schools enjoy, but that has the distinction of being one of the largest feeders of young lifeguards in New York City.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are few recent entries for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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One possible solution that he shared with the Parks Department earlier in the day: Allow surfers like himself to extend their narrow space into the closed section — since lifeguards do not watch the surfers anyway — and create a large surfing beach that would be a draw even if the beach is going to be closed to swimmers for years.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about racism, weekend sport, birthday cakes, another road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about birthday cakes, a road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about weekend sport, birthday cakes, another road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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There are always humans in it: codgers bobbing up and down, doing invisible calisthenics; brawny young men in Speedos doing laps in impeccable form; backstroking grannies; moms coaching tots; sly submariners; stationary yentas conducting philosophical discourse while blocking an entire lane; lifeguards perched above it all, looking bored; and annoyingly adept kiddies — probably the grandchildren of those demons from Schenectady — zipping around (and under) me like demented otters.
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While some Tijuana residents are concerned about "migrants drowning in the surf while trying to cross, subsumed by the waves," one area of positive binational cooperation is the way that ocean lifeguards from Tijuana work with their counterparts in my city and the California Department of Parks and Recreation to rescue migrants and recreational swimmers who are swept up in rip currents in and around the border fence.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about Aussie place names, a play date gone wrong, racism, weekend sport, birthday cakes, another road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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To assist state and local agencies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention led a seven-year, national collaborative effort with public health, the aquatics sector (that is, pool managers, water safety instructors, lifeguards, non-profits and government officials), and academic partners to develop a national guidance document, called the Model Aquatic Health Code (MAHC), to prevent drowning, injuries, and the spread of germs that cause recreational water illnesses at public swimming pools, hot tubs, spas and waterparks.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about boxing in the outback, a bread thief, Vegemite, Aussie place names, a play date gone wrong, racism, weekend sport, birthday cakes, another road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about a bread thief, angsty poetry, Vegemite, Aussie place names, a play date gone wrong, racism, weekend sport, birthday cakes, another road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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For guidance and inspiration, here are a few other recent entries: about listening to each other's stories, boxing in the outback, a bread thief, Vegemite, Aussie place names, a play date gone wrong, racism, weekend sport, birthday cakes, another road trip, for the birds, no hat, no play, a housewarming party, tales of nippers, growing up on the creek, generational angst, paying with pineapples, magical mermaid pools, lizard friends, nude beaches, music and road trips, curious lifeguards, death and kindness, plus poetry and #metoo on the work site.
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Before diving in to the details, here are some numbers: 53: The number of city pools 900: The number of pool lifeguards 1.7 million: The number of users last summer 16 million: The total number of gallons in all the pools $0: The entry fee Yes, these urban oases are free, but before you plunge into that cool, chlorinated bliss, you must show an attendant at the entrance that you have a conventional bathing suit — shorts must have a lining — and a sturdy padlock to secure your belongings in a locker.
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