Would you make a good lifeguard?

[Martin_M]

Came across these on YouTube and whilst I noticed a few of those in trouble, I was pretty rubbish overall. What is quite scary is how so many other people are oblivious to the person in trouble each time.

Here's a few to get you going but there are many more on the channel itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFuULOY5ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDpdBu-je6E

[ezi]

I can barely swim so probably not

[NRS]

ezi said:

I can barely swim so probably not

Same here!

[Fishtigua]

NRS said:

ezi said:

I can barely swim so probably not

Same here!

+1

Though I spent most of my life at sea and scubadive, a very crap swimmer.

[cwis]

Yes. I was one for a few years in my yoof. Did both the open water and indoor exams - mostly only worked indoor pools.

It's scary, and boring.

Boring because you are just sitting there looking at people having fun, or exercising, or messing about.

Scary because if you zone out, get distracted or fall asleep (warm places, swimming pools) someone could die.

Only had to go in twice - once to retrieve a child that tried to climb out of her rubber ring while out of her depth (it caught on her feet and lifted them in the air) and once to retrieve a tosser that dived into the shallow end and fractured his skull.

Most of the job is crowd control, child minding and scrubbing hardened ps off urinals.

[StuntmanMike]

cwis said:

Yes. I was one for a few years in my yoof. Did both the open water and indoor exams - mostly only worked indoor pools.


Most of the job is crowd control, child minding and scrubbing hardened ps off urinals.

They didn't really cover that aspect of the job in Baywatch.

[Jasandjules]

Well, I've rescued people in trouble swimming in the sea before now, including having to dive off a boat to get to someone quickly. So I might be ok.

[ApOrbital]

Yes i am a very good swimmer but the pay is crap.

[grumpy52]

Qualified as a teenager, never had to do it in anger .
Rescued more as a motorsport marshall (36yrs service)
Too old and decrepit these days .

[ali_kat]

Got both

Trained as one as a teenager, I trained as a teacher as well.

Havenot needs to use it, when I've seen stuff & started to head over, the LG was closer, noticed me moving & got there

[dudleybloke]

I can do the slo-mo running bit ok.

[Crush]

I'm often mistaken for an Aussie so would probably get the job.


Can't swim that well though

[944fan]

I do a bit of swimming. The guards at my pool wall talking about what they have to be able to do to work there. They had to swim a length in 40 seconds. I could swim 2 in less than that time.

[Mastodon2]

Martin_M said:

Came across these on YouTube and whilst I noticed a few of those in trouble, I was pretty rubbish overall. What is quite scary is how so many other people are oblivious to the person in trouble each time.

Here's a few to get you going but there are many more on the channel itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFuULOY5ik

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDpdBu-je6E

Those are embarrassing, particularly the second one. If you're such a feckless oaf that you can't swim, you've got no business in a deep pool. What idiots.

[Surfr]

Got my open water bronze as a teenager and worked an indoor pool for a while. As others have stated, it's mostly child monitoring and wiping the scum of off the showe cubicle walls. Got pretty good at spinning my whistle around my finger though.

[Gargamel]

I guess they must be panicking, but you'd think with the side nearby and the ability to put both feet on the floor, you could make it out of the pool.

(The child in the first clip I can understand) but the second guy ?

[Mastodon2]

Gargamel said:

I guess they must be panicking, but you'd think with the side nearby and the ability to put both feet on the floor, you could make it out of the pool.

(The child in the first clip I can understand) but the second guy ?

You can see the bloke in the second clip can't put his feet on the bottom though, as he tries to do so and becomes completely submerged.

[MarshPhantom]

Fishtigua said:

NRS said:

ezi said:

I can barely swim so probably not

Same here!

+1

Though I spent most of my life at sea and scubadive, a very crap swimmer.

I never got passed my red badge.



I did a power boat training course a few years ago, they asked if I could swim, their definition of this was being able to swim 250m fully clothed. Not a chance.

[matchmaker]

NRS said:

ezi said:

I can barely swim so probably not

Same here!

And here. When I became an RNLI lifeboatman my wife said "but you can't swim!" I pointed out that I fully intended to stay on board the lifeboat and out of the drink...

[Martin_M]

matchmaker said:

NRS said:

ezi said:

I can barely swim so probably not

Same here!

And here. When I became an RNLI lifeboatman my wife said "but you can't swim!" I pointed out that I fully intended to stay on board the lifeboat and out of the drink...

That's unreal. Weren't you ever worried about the potential for ffalling in? I know you'd have a life vest on but psychologically that must have been hard, no?