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A team of 8 testing officers from the Ocean City Beach Patrol will be conducting lifeguard evaluations in Montreal after 2003 shortage.
The Ocean City Life-Saving Station (also known as U.S. Life Saving Station 30 and U.S. Coast Guard Station No. 126) is the only life-saving station of its design in New Jersey still in existence. Designed by architect James Lake Parkinson in a Carpenter Gothic style, the building is one of 25 stations built of the 1882 life-saving type.
[24] [1] In Maryland, more than 225 rescues were reported by beach patrol in Ocean City. [1] On July 11, a Coastal Flood Advisory was issued for the Jersey Shore. [25] Two teenage surfers rescued a swimmer caught by a rip current in New Jersey. In Spring Lake, volunteer lifeguards rescued a man from drowning. [26]
The first beach patrol in the United States was founded in 1891 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Atlantic City Beach Patrol is currently the oldest active beach patrol in the United States. [60] In 2009, 117 drowned at the nation's beaches; 21 drowned where lifeguards were on duty. There were 82,969 rescues reported from 114 reporting agencies ...
The Ocean City Fire Department has acquired a groundbreaking tool designed to assist first responders in water rescues. ... Life-saving rescue in Ocean City, MD: How beach patrol hero saved one ...
The Coast Guard rescued four people and a dog from a sinking boat in New Jersey on Sunday, according to a news release.
Coast Guard Station Ocean City: Ocean City: 1878 Active 30 126 [154] [155] Coast Guard Station Peck's Beach: 1870 1922 31 127 [156] [155] Coast Guard Station Sea Isle City: Sea Isle City: 1872 1939 33 129 [157] Coast Guard Station Seabright: Seabright: 1871 1938 3 99 [158] Coast Guard Station Shark River: Avon-by-the-Sea: 2021 7 103 [159] Coast ...
Rip currents, which can unexpectedly pull beachgoers out to sea, account for nearly 80% of all lifeguard rescues, according to the United States Lifesaving Association.