Swimming Lessons Merely Part of Real Water Safety

re: Swimming Lessons Merely Part of Real Water Safety

RachelZ — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 13:42:48 GMT

I lived next door to a small lake with diving boards and slides and whatnot. A couple of times during the summer, there would be buses from the city, filled with too many kids and not enough adults and every year, without fail, at least one kid would drown.

Our boss always called those days "Sinker Days" and we were all expected to work from 8AM to 8PM, no excuses. We always had every single lifeguard on duty on those days, sometimes upwards of 20 guards, but it didn't matter. These kids weren't taught anything about water safety AND they were poorly supervised. GAH. Every. YEAR.

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re: Swimming Lessons Merely Part of Real Water Safety

Lisa — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:05:31 GMT

Or when somebody got struck by lightening at the beginning of monsoon season!!

Shit! I was home for 1 week a year or so ago and there were 11 drownings. This was during the spring too. It seemed like half of them happened on the grandparent's watch. I think one was a paramedic too.