Lifeguards are incredibly important. Especially at swimming pools, be they indoors our out. Recent estimates claim that over 60% of all children that die from drowning, drown in pools. Another shocking statistic says that between the years 2005 and 2009, there were an average of 3,500 unintentional non-boating related drownings each year. 20% of those who died were aged 14 or younger.
So it’s not an easy job, being a lifeguard. It’s easy to get distracted in such a role too. It’s relatively low pay and many workers are either quite young or working on a casual basis. But we think they do an amazing job.
Watch the video below and – bearing in mind this could be a few hours into a shift, see if you can spot the child in trouble before the lifeguard does…
This isn’t the first time we’ve covered such acts of bravery – check out another amazing lifeguard rescue.
