While at Robert Moses State Park in Suffolk County, I was standing in some very cold water, in crashing waves about waist high while explaining what a rip tide is. While the waves were making it hard for me and my camera guy Jordan Edwards to stand up, we both heard a whistle and I looked off about 150 away to see a lifeguard running to the water and swimming to a young boy who appeared to be in distress.
Lifeguards sit in elevated chairs above the water, on hot days and are tasked with making sure no one is in distress in the water or is in danger of drowning. The amount of money that they lifeguards make is next to nothing in relation to the job that they do. They should be paid like the best first responder and if a lifeguard is not a first responder, we need to re-define who or what it is.
Here is the water rescue video, taken yesterday at Robert Moses State Park:
Lifeguards sit in elevated chairs above the water, on hot days and are tasked with making sure no one is in distress in the water or is in danger of drowning. The amount of money that they lifeguards make is next to nothing in relation to the job that they do. They should be paid like the best first responder and if a lifeguard is not a first responder, we need to re-define who or what it is.
Here is the water rescue video, taken yesterday at Robert Moses State Park:
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