Descriptive Essay About Lifeguards

During my seventh grade year at my local country club I took some junior lifeguard classes. Trained to save someone's life in the case of an emergency never thinking I would need it. Over the summer I went to the beach with family and friends, an extremely normal occurrence. Arriving at the surprisingly bare beach I carried my board through the blistering sand. Based on the strong current and the abnormal wave pattern I decide against surfing, but still

This level of focus and dedication allowed me to supersede all expectations and excel when emergencies did arise. I was proud at how naturally I reverted to my classroom training and the countless drills we ran during the certification process, so that when the time came I was always ready. This increased level of awareness has also been helpful in my daily life and my studies because I am able to easily identify my priorities and ignore distractions. In this regard, lifeguarding wasn’t just a job but became an opportunity for personal

As a lifeguard, it is my personal responsibility and duty to preserve the peacefulness and protect the lives of every patron that enters the pool. This holds true especially at Baker Park (Edward P. Thomas Jr. Memorial Pool), for the pool often reached maximum capacity within an hour of opening, not including the daily two hundred children we get from day campps, such as Boys and Girls club and YMCA. While I guard the pool and perameter, it is crucial to exhibit all three qualities of Ready, Respectful, and Relentless, for anything can happen instantly which can interfere with the public safety of everyone, including myself.

The world is full of heroes. The brave men and women who serve in the armed forces protect the United States of America. Local police help ensure safety in cities and towns. Firefighters save lives daily. Doctors perform life-saving surgeries. Heroes are found everywhere. Although some people seem to forget, lifeguards are heroes too. I recently sent in an application to be a lifeguard at the pool on campus. I was discussing hours with a classmate who is currently employed, and he told me that the hours were long, but often a shift would pass without a single swimmer entering the water. Another classmate interjected saying “You can do your homework while you work.” Lifeguarding is not the easy task portrayed in movies. Guards do not suntan and talk to girls for the duration of their shift. Rather, a lifeguard’s duty is in the name: guarding the lives of patrons. The work of these heroes is often gone unpraised. The job is disregarded as an easy way for teenagers to make money, instead of the true challenge it offers to the employees. The process of becoming a lifeguard requires more than blowing a whistle. It is a commitment involving intricate knowledge acquired through training and experience. Lifeguarding is a serious commitment.

thought I knew everything about being a Lifeguard. Working at the Melnea A Cass Pool gave me the opportunity to actually save someone's life, and work on myself. Saving someone's life as a lifeguard was almost anticlimactic, it started with a typical busy day at work, having roughly 200 people at the pool which meant all eyes on deck and I couldn’t even count the amount of times I would have to say things like, “Don’t run” or “You can’t eat on the pool deck.” Having my fellow guards behind my back during a busy day like this was reassuring, but that reassurance didn’t mean I could slack off. During the middle of the day A young girl whose name I never had the chance of getting to know was struggling to keep afloat in the deeper part of the pool. As a lifeguard I am trained to know what is actually drowning and what playing around looks like and with that, moments later I actually realized that she was drowning in the 6 foot part of the pool. Never really having to save someone before, I hesitated to act at first but remembering everything I experienced that alone drove me to jump into the pool after her across the pool and bring her to safety at the edge of the water. I remember her crying and running away from me to her family, even when I needed her name for the documentation. My manager Amarri came and let me know I did a good job and he told me I needed to go back to watching the water, and like that I

The primary goal of this group is to prevent, protect and inform other of drownings. The YMCA-YWCA also works towards helping teach others to swim to allow people it safely enjoy the benefits of swimming. In order to reach these goal the guards go through extensive training. There are three main steps to this process. The first is course training; they must participate and complete ten courses. These range from 30 hours all the way to two weeks long. That is where they get the knowledge involved in this lifesaving practice. Secondly they go through simulation and physical standard testing’s. The simulation the YMCA-YWCA workers go through help them practice their skills under the major pressure of time. Physical standards test cardio, lifting capacity, speed and more. If any of these step are failed of missing the person is UN

A major accomplishment in my life was when I became a certified lifeguard. As a child I had always looked up to lifeguards as role models and heroes. I would envision myself as a lifeguard saving people from drowning and from the occasional shark attack, even though that is very uncommon. I knew then that when I was older I would try to become a lifeguard. I did my research and found that I had to be fifteen to become a lifeguard.I took a CPR class that my high school offered because it would prepare me for the CPR test when I take the lifeguard class. The year I turned fifteen I was not the typical kind of person that became a lifeguard, I was a thin and not very strong teenager that was not on the swim team. This presented a problem because

I am a senior/potential first year grad student. I spend a lot of time lifeguarding at the Campus Recreation Center and the YMCA. My hometown is in Sterling, Illinois, where there is a lot of banks, bars, churches and parking lots. Growing up, I lived with my mother, father and older brother that graduated from Western Illinois University. I currently attend The Crossing church in Macomb, Illinois, where I was a village leader for our college ministry. Early mornings are the worst thing in the world in my mind, but I want to change that by starting to exercise before my classes. An interesting fact about me is that I can't run straight on a treadmill. I am unaware of the reason why I can’t do it I just blame the accident I had as young child

So how was I trained for it? Before I started lifeguarding, I first had to pass three tests which consist of a five hundred yard swim, a brick test, and a treading water test. I also had to be certified in CPR, First Aid, and O2 tanks. I also had to stay in shape and keep my lifeguard body by swimming everyday, working out and eating right. Once I started working as a lifeguard we we had several drills once a week to keep us up to date and ready for anything that might happen in the pool.

“We are,” Teacher resolves, “and it’s very important that we remember the pool rules. What are the rules of the pool?” After a lengthy pause with no response, Teacher emphasizes, “You need to wear sunscreen, you have to stay with your friends, you need to be able to see me, and you MUST wear floaties if you’re going in the deep end. Do you understand?”

A lifeguard is a salvation between patron and water. A lifeguard oversees the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and a variety of water sports. Lifeguards demonstrate of being strong swimmers and must be certified in CPR/AED, first aid, and water rescue skills. The Bureau of Labor Statistics classifies a lifeguard as Recreational Protective Service Workers; which is a sector of the Recreation Worker. Lifeguard, as an occupation, is clumped with Ski Patrol, and other Protective Service Workers. This occupation is part of the service industry and employees about 145,100 people in the U.S. The mean hourly wage is, $10.89 and mean annual wage is $22,640. As a worker in the Protective Service Sector means that my job has no influence on the

Life is wholly bountiful with dilemmas we must quell. Yet, our dilemmas are present to strengthen our utter morality. A defining obstacle stems from the prevalence of race. A radical woman had disturbing qualms about my reasoning for becoming a lifeguard. She thought that African-Americans were ultimately unsuitable in the safeguarding of someone's life. She loathed the sight of a minority having to watch her children. Her enmity of minorities was monumental as she began to noisily harass me. I had to mollify the fury within myself as I began to pacify the women. I yearned to show her that I did not seek the harm of her children. Yet, she spat upon the ground and swore not to return until all of the colored lifeguards were dismissed. I used

Imagine a hot summer day, me sitting in the house with nothing to do and wanting to cool off. Most people would suggest a solution such as, “Why don’t you go to the pool?” and I would scowl. Not because I don’t have access to a pool, not because no one would go with me, and not even because I am afraid of the water, but simply because I am a lifeguard. I have spent my entire life around pools. I went there almost every day in the summer and never grew tired of them. Day in and day out, same thing at the same pool and I would keep coming back. Someone might wonder how I could repeat that routine and never get tired of it, but that all changed about a year ago when I became a lifeguard at that pool I loved so dearly. Ever since I have started working there I can’t stand to be near a pool. The funny thing is I promised myself I would never work there, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

What seemed like a simple summer job has changed my life forever. During my sophomore year, I decided that I needed to start applying for jobs so that I would have one when I got my license during summer. Of course, I wanted it to be something fun, and what’s better than spending your entire summer at a waterpark? I interviewed for a position at Splashdown Waterpark and after twenty-four hours of training, successfully became a lifeguard. I had high expectations for my first summer as a lifeguard, and the job did not disappoint. The atmosphere was amazing and I looked forward to going to work everyday. Likewise, being a lifeguard gave me a sense of importance. Although the summer had been uneventful so far, I was still aware of the serious

Lifeguard classes were 2 days that consisted of CPR training, swimming laps, and learning rescues. When we first began, there were three of us sitting at a table on the pool deck with an outdated rolling TV. I was handed a 100-page lifeguarding manual my eyes bulged out of my head, the butterflies in my stomach multiplied. Looking through the book, watching rescues and talking through every question I had calmed my nerves. But the statistics of drowning still haunted my mind, 360,000 people died from drowning in 2015 (WHO). All though at the YMCA in Red Oak hasn’t had a drowning,