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Candidates who successfully complete this open-water and pool lifeguarding course will be certified to lifeguard for 2 years before needing to complete a re-certification course.
OUR 2024 LIFEGUARDING COURSE WILL TAKE PLACE May 31 to JUNE 2. WE WILL BE OFFERING ORIGINAL CERTIFICATIONS, RE-CERTIFICATIONS, AND CPR CERTIFICATIONS AND RE-CERTS. Lifeguarding Certification Certification Course: $450 each participant Re-Certification Course: $270 each participant Adult & Pediatric CPR Certification Course: $145 Re-Certification Course: $100 May 31: class meets from 6-9pm Review and Preliminary Testing for CPR, lifeguarding, and waterfront June 1 and 2: class meets from 9-5 Bring lunch, snacks, water, towels, swim suit and goggles, mask, fins & snorkel, and CPR mask *We will have some CPR masks available for purchase at $16, and whistles for $6. Please let us know if you need one. Minimum class size of 4 students. With fewer than 4 students the cost of lifeguarding class increases to $580 ($300 recert). |
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Lifeguards and athletes in open-water swim
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Prerequisites
- Minimum age of 15
- Swim 550 yards continuously
- Tread water for 2 minutes using only your legs
- Complete a timed event within 1 minute and 40 seconds
- Starting in the water, swim 20 yards
- Surface dive to a depth of 7-10 feet deep and retrieve a 10 pound object. Return to surface and swim 20 yards on your back to return to the starting point.
- Exit the water without using a ladder or steps
- Swim 5 yards submerged. Retrieve 3 dive rings located 5 yards apart without surfacing.
- Resurface and swim an additional 5 yards.
