Descriptive Essay About Lifeguards

One of the many responsibilities a lifeguard at the Freeburg Community Pool will have to take on is cleaning the concession stand. It starts off with restocking all of the foods and drinks; this includes bottles of soda, Gatorade, water, and snacks such as chips, candy, and ice cream. Once the restocking is over, you may move on to refilling the soda machine. In order to do this, you have to refill the ice first. Refilling the ice is a long drawn out procedure that consists of filling a bucket with ice, walking back to the front to put it into the soda machine, walking back, and then repeating about eight to ten times. The next task is to clean, rinse, and sanitize all of the dishes. These dishes include tongs, knives, pizza cutters, pretzel

Touching on how the Navy trains seals, the viewers got to see how candidates deal with their fear of drowning. Entering the water with bound hands and feet, the men were seen trying to refrain from panicking while undoing the ropes. This practice exercise didn’t have one candidate respond well as he started to get

This year is the first year at the Nile swim club in which I am the head lifeguard. Being the head lifeguard comes with a lot of responsibility. At the Nile Swim Club Mrs. Gwendolyn Brown is an excellent leader that everyone should look up to. The Nile swim club is the first black owned pool in America and she has a lot of pride to keep it that way. A lot of the members and board members have other jobs and which the Nile takes the back seat but to Mrs. Gwen the Nile is her main priority even though she has another job as a day care inspector as soon as she leaves her job she comes straight to the Nile to handle business and to make sure that everything is the way it should be. Mrs. Gwen has the respect of every member and employee, and she

All of a sudden ‘Bye Bye Bye’ by NSYNC plays deafeningly over the speakers. It's the perfect volume for 6:00 am. Putting my cap on has become a subconscious skill and once it's on all I have to do is wait for a captain to yell, ‘GET IN THE WATER NOW OR WE’LL PUSH YOU’ and I'm good to swim! Before they can even utter the word ‘water’ I'm in the pool. The sensation is like no other.

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

“Listen, Mikey, they’re putting in a whirlpool for sports injury therapy. Looks pretty neat. Why don’t you come to the pool sometime? Would you like that?”

He is a lifeguard so he can use the pool for practicing laps and diving. He chooses to have no relationship with the children that swim there. “Keeping snot-nosed kids from drowning themselves is the only price I have to pay.” Keeping busy,

The 21-yeard-old took interest in being a lifeguard just last year. She didn’t have much experience in that type pf job besides the fact that she swam in high school her senior year. While training to get her certificate she soon realized that it’s not just a fun job to lounge in a chair all day. She learned skills that will be useful to her during her whole lifetime and learned how to work cohesively

My heart pounded as my feet gradually left the safety of the grounds and began its ascent on a ladder that rattled on every step. Sweat formed in the palms of my hands while my gaze remained transfixed to the ground. In my mind’s eye, I envisioned myself landing with a splat on the ground. This was my first time at White Water, Six Flags. At first, when my cousins invited me to the trip, I presumed that in the worst case scenario, I would face a roller coaster; I can stomach that as long as there were seat

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.

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

The day was hot and sunny; I had been there for about 20 minutes, so I entered this lull of waiting for another lifeguard to come up in ten minutes. I suddenly noticed this young guy who had been struggling to move around in the shallow end start running towards the deep end. All of my attention was drawn to him. He jumped into the deep end so I quickly stood up to watch him and see if he was okay. Right when I stood up he began to struggle to stay afloat. “Are you okay? Do you need help?” is all I remembered yelling before I jumped in the water with clothes and all to save him. The distressed look on his face was terrifying to me so I can not imagine what the experience was like for him. When I had finally swam to him, he grabbed onto my rescue tube and an instant sign of relief came across his face. I swam the boy to the shallow end where he could touch the bottom. This one rescue showed me just how important my job was at that very moment. Each person that came to the pool was putting their life into the hands of each of the lifeguards that were responsible for watching over

In today’s speech, I’d like to illustrate that the process of becoming a lifeguard is a serious undertaking that requires significant training from which you will learn many lessons.

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,

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