A teenage lifeguard in North Carolina was severely injured when he saved a child from drowning, but he has some inspiring words for others.
Citizens are in awe of a group of lifeguards in Flagler Beach, Florida, who performed an incredible rescue August 5.
Helping deliver a baby was not a part of YMCA lifeguard Natalie Lucas’s job description, but that is exactly what happened while she was on duty recently.
A plane crash in Hunting Beach, California, on Friday resulted in no significant injuries thanks to some quick-thinking rescuers.
According to a recent report titled, “Baywatch on Pay Watch,” a watchdog group known as Open the Books reveals that the highest-paid lifeguard in Los Angeles County made $510,283 in 2021. This particular lifeguard, a captain, reportedly made a sizable chunk of this money in overtime.
Two men, one a migrant with a deportation order, sexually assaulted a teenage female lifeguard on a French beach while bystanders reportedly did nothing to help.
According to a government waste watchdog, the top lifeguards in Los Angeles County shockingly earned nearly $400,000 each in 2019.
Italy has enacted a series of detailed regulations for beach lifeguards as the country slowly emerges from total lockdown, including a ban on mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to prevent coronavirus contagion.
Three people were killed and two injured when a cliff collapsed on top of them at a beach in Encinitas, California, on Friday.
An Australian lifeguard drone successfully saved two teenagers from drowning by dropping an inflatable rescue pod.
Video of an altercation between a Venice Beach lifeguard and three allegedly drunk attackers is circulating the internet. Two men and one woman involved in the incident were arrested and released on bail.
Strange black blobs of tar-like goo surged on onto southern California’s Manhattan Beach by the thousands, closing down the two-mile area Wednesday while the U.S. Coast Guard and National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration are investigating the source and substance.
Strong rip currents proved too powerful for 10 T-shirt wearing beachgoers in Newport Beach waters this Memorial Day as they slipped out to sea–rescued only by a team of watchful lifeguards.
“We’re starting to see the behavior here on the dock with the seals a little more aggressive than normally,” said local Erik Kopp after seeing a man hauled off in a stretcher from San Diego’s Mission Bay Channel Sunday afternoon. The man was holding a fish in his hand when a sea lion jumped up and bit the fish and the man’s hand, dragging the man underwater as well.
