On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, K. Whilden wrote: > I should add that I really like Jack's scenario below. A couple of > improvements would be to copy what lifeguards do to rescue incapacitated > swimmers through surf. Do they use those orange bouys, or do they > physically hold onto the swimmer? Around here there tend to be 3 choices of equipment for the life guards, a double handled "torpedo", an oversized flotation belt with a short (roughly 3 foot) tow rope with shoulder loop, and an overstuffed surfboard. In dumping waves I would probably chose the retrieval belt. The harness loop goes over the rescuers shoulder and the flotation belt goes around the swimmers chest, the swimmer then gets towed in backwards. With the short tow rope you get to keep the swimmer away from you. Lifeguards want to avoid getting in grabbing range of the swimmer. The standard ingrained mantra is "reach, row, throw, go". kirk long ago a life guard *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Nov 06 1998 - 07:33:44 PST
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