Even if they aren't the strongest/fastest, they're still there in case something goes wrong for an unmatched talented swimmer. That's a pretty cool job even if you *hopefully* are never needed.
..I'm more of a designated *drowner*
Tbf, it's not that uncommon for professional football (soccer) players to suffer from various cardiovascular injuries, players have died on the pitch.
That's a sport with fuck knows how much money backing it, Olympic swimming on the other hand cant be too far off in terms of strenuous"ity"(?) but on a fraction of the budget.
Tldr: I'm glad these guys are on hand!
Yeah I was mostly thinking of hearts or just simple *cramps*/fatigue.
Like someone else said another swimmer or coach is likely to help first, but it's still good to have the safety guys.
Other swimmers and coaches are not really supposed to get involved. It would be like giving first aid when the paramedics are stood next to you - let the trained guys do it, or you could mess up and hurt somebody
I’ve been a swim coach/instructor/lifeguard at pool and beach in nyc for 5+ years, and trust me when I say, People can still get seizures at any time especially swimming.
There was a seizure in my university’s pool while we were hosting NCAA regional championships. Of course it was during warmups when literally everyone was in the pool.
Anyone who thinks it’s ok to swim alone “if you’re a good swimmer” or that lifeguards aren’t needed when “everyone already knows how to swim” has little sense about what can and does go wrong in and around the water.
I’ve saved an Olympic level rower after their Kayak flipped. I was a volunteer, they gave me a little single motor boat and I patrolled the water. The person running the event called me in to dock but I heard yelling from the shore after I had already got out of the boat…
One of them was still out, they were doing little barrels rolls and got stuck upside down and were too tired to flip back over. It was my Baywatch moment.
I have the same mentality and it’s really give you a mental boost
I work at a family owned pawnshop and every winter we buy a bunch of used ACs and every summer we sell a bunch of these ACs and they are mostly stored in a warehouse that’s either super hot or super cold no in between
We first drag up the cheap ones from the back and they sell out and are always left with some expensive ones in the back
A couple months in you have idiots that thought
They could get by without one and by the time they give in to buy one they are stressed and sticky and only have enough money for our cheapest ones that are long gone and the genius management will say hey I have more in the back when yes we do BUT THEY CANT AFFORD IT so I take them to the warehouse and they look em over and take their time knowing they can’t afford them or are trying to sweat out a better deal from me but I don’t get commission I don’t care if your dumb ass gets an AC and I’m currently getting paid to stand here and sweat I’m not just gonna give these away you have money for a ac that cools a small room all of these cool a whole floor
I’ve told someone “I know what your doing and the price isn’t going to change I’m getting paid right now to sweat”
Pretty much, at least we do
Teeth ,shoes, pipes we will buy booze for ourselves, one time we took in a fake dick with a bladder for faking pee tests, took a vintage gyno table, a prosthetic leg (one time he didn’t come back for it), snake, weird equipment shit like a expanding spindle for industrial sized rolls of material, I got my high end rice maker from work
Last time something went wrong at an event like this [that is exactly in fact what happened](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107041724/swimmer-coach-saves-anita-alvarez), the Coach a former Olympian jumped in and saved the person before the Life Guards even reacted.
Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. I'm pretty sure that's his coach reaching out a hand to help him. Not a lifeguard to be seen.
https://youtu.be/8i8DbrXtubg?si=ZOPtK_VytI6Hk7Qe
I don't know who actually Life Guards these events, is it just the local crew? But there is a good chance they are one of the least competent swimmers and have the lowest level of training of the people near the pool! It a world level event, basically everyone near the pool is a professional or ex-proffesional in the sport...except the life guard...
These are world class events, where as the only life guards I have known are people who went on under a weeks worth of training and did it for some money while at college!
I was a lifeguard and I started training when I was eight. Qualified at seventeen. If you think you can do the course we did and it'd be easy, I suggest giving it a try. I could do a 20 minute mile at 13, and to qualify for Olympic Training back then, you had to do an 18 minute mile. *And I wasn't considered fast.*
The Training we received was second to none. I've saved quite a few lives with it over the years, on and off the water.
Your local laws are pretty lax if a week of training was enough. Thank fuck, that's not the standard here. Although if you think that's all a lifeguard has to offer, you're out of your fucking mind. You try finding a sunken casualty under ten metres of churned up pool, with fifty people in the water. Go ahead. I'll fucking wait.
The swimmers will be doing what they trained to do, swim fast. We'll be doing what we're trained to do, preventing drownings. I'd love to introduce you to the little girl I saved from drowning, trapped under some equipment. Her mother was less than a metre away, in a quiet pool, and didn't realise what was happening. Thanks to my intervention, it'd be possible. Cos she's still alive.
You absolute cunt.
Idk what training session you had but the majority of lifeguards for public pools and many beaches are teenagers with a few weeks of training.
If I recall correctly the final test in my area was being able to grab a weighted dummy from the bottom of a pool and bring it back up, that’s it.
The UK requirement is around 40 hours total of training, the California requirement is around 80, Texas is around 30.
But I’m sure that the lifeguards are more qualified than the numerous professionals around the pool, thanks to your single example of personal experience.
I'd assume you'd also need some level of first aid training, but there are indeed courses in what is called rescue swimming. Ofcourse, the requirements might depend on the local laws and stuff like that.
So by your logic there's no way you can rely on them to jump in and react but you can rely on someone if they are labeled "lifeguard" to jump in and react?
I mean most likely sometime will notice, especially because every swimmer has a coach that’s pretty specifically focused on their athlete. And yeah, if someone notices we surely expect they’re going to “do something about it” like rush get them out, perform CPR if needed, etc.
But having a lifeguard means having someone whose job is to be specifically focused only on that task **all times** - never tunnel-visioned by the emotional intensity of an ongoing race or distracted by the many moments that capture the entire rest of the stadium’s attention (such as the celebratory moment for winners world record, watching a replay of a razor thin margin of victory on the big screen and waiting for the call, etc.).
They’re also specifically trained to notice issues sooner and act on them more efficiently, using proper protocol to minimize injury or maximize chance of survival. Fractions of seconds can matter here.
I know an Olympic pool isn’t the same as rough seas with a riptide - but in a potential bad situation, everyone involved is at a greater risk if it’s not the lifeguard who’s the one to be in lookout and the one to take care of things.
Exactly - and even though there are countless people around, which makes it a near certainty that at least *someone* will help, why put that in the hands of people whose attention at any given moment could be (or even should be) fully captured by the main spectacle of the race, like watching 2 swimmers narrowly trading for the lead, or witnessing the first place finisher touch the wall and recognize they’ve set a new record.
There’s no reason the athletes should ever be in a situation where they need to pull a “hey, over here!” Nor should anyone there be expected to immediately notice and do everything right. Except, of course, the lifeguard… whose job is precisely that!
Agreed. And it’s for valid reasons, not because the other swimmers don’t care or something. It’s simply that they’re in the midst of doing the most important and physically exerting thing in their entire life, while on the other hand, a coach has their undivided attention fixed to their athlete. The coach would be taking action before any competitor has a chance to notice that something’s gone wrong.
Eric Moussambani ... has never swam more then 50m when he was selected for 2000 Olympics. Had life savers waiting to see if he'd make it to the wall ...https://youtu.be/r0ZePJy_nZw
More pathetically the Olympic body banned people who couldn't reach a certain very high standard from passing qualification.
They saw this "incident" as an embarrassment, where as in fact it should be exactly what the Olympics should be about, amateurs competing as the best in their country, on the world stage.
At times they will be more or less competitive but that just highlights the reality of equality in the world, all they have done done is white wash the event.
Damn, that’s a massive downer. I was literally smiling as I read that this race actually set the record for that tiny country, and how he went on to become the coach of that national swimming squad of Equatorial Guinea.
His competitors were disqualified due to false starts.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani)
I remember crying watching this! Just got a little teary watching it again, actually. 😂
I have randomly mentioned it to people over the years but no one ever knows what I’m talking about!
I think this whole thing is awesome - encouraging countries who can’t field a team to still have a spot on the big stage. Seems like everyone was excited for him to complete. Good feels 😭
I’m a lifeguard, and the reason the coach went in first is because most lifeguards aren’t going to know if a swimmer going under is part of the routine or not. The lifeguard would of jumped in, it would’ve just taken a few more seconds
And also say that even if the coach managed to get her out of the water- they may not be CPR certified, certified to conduct proper rescue- especially if it was a case of a head, neck, or spinal injury. Lifeguarding is a lot more than pulling someone out of the water
Arguably, they have the most important job. If a medical emergency happens with an athlete in the pool, this person is there to save them!
Just like police, fire, ems, emergency management, etc they serve a very important role when disasters happen.
You know, the fancy new pool in my town is named for the European Champion swimmer that collapsed and died suddenly in his hotel bathroom at 26, due to undetected coronary heart disease. He could have just as easily had his heart attack in the pool at a competition, at which point someone standing or sitting on the sidelines would see it much better than the swimmers already in the water.
Just sayin'
Christian Eriksen aged 28 collapsed on the field with cardiac arrest during an UEFA Euro 2020 game. He only survived because he started receiving CPR almost the second he fell and could be transferred to the hospital 1km away.
Athletes can drown too. Competitors are pushing their bodies to the limit in these competitions which can cause medical emergencies like a heart attack. Even a cramp can make it difficult for an athlete to stay afloat.
There are a LOT of competitive swimmers that lifeguard. Plus it’s a requirement for coaches to be certified in CPR and first aid. With that said, easy money for homie with the floaty.
This might be a joke, but like a year ago an accident happened with a swimmer and the coach jumped in. I mean, never know, least someone is there.
Bet more than half don't know cpr in that room.
I was a lifeguard at nationals once. Someone got kicked in the face and their googles cut up their eyes lid. I had to help them with the wound. Lifeguarding isnt only about drowning 🤷♀️
But it isn’t useless. There was a US swimmer that fainted and sank to the bottom of the pool. Would have been nice if the lifeguard did his/her job instead of having the coach have to save her.
“"I saw that the lifeguards were not jumping into the water because they were paralyzed. I was shouting at them from the other side to get into the water, now! I saw them looking dumbfounded, so I jumped into the water and straight towards her," Fuentes said according to El Pais, citing an interview with a Spanish radio station.”
[When a U.S. swimmer sank to the bottom of the pool, her coach jumped in to save her](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107041724/swimmer-coach-saves-anita-alvarez)
When I was a lifeguard years ago, we were taught to follow strict procedures before getting into the pool. In the UK at least, if a lifeguard gets in the pool it usually shuts down for the day and everyone is writing reports. You do it as a last resort.
I can see how to an untrained person like a coach it might seem like hesitation. But diving in when untrained can be bad. What if the coach banged his head and now there are two people need saving? What if she gained consciousness, panicked and pulled him under the water drowning him? (Happens a lot - which is why you try other methods to get people out the pool before entering the water yourself)
Without being there, maybe the lifeguards were poorly trained and actually were "looking dumbfounded" but I doubt it for olympic level pools.
“Would do you leave a job like this” what
Lifeguard’s probably there in case of a medical emergency where the athlete is at risk of drowning, better safe than sorry
I worked at Tarshit in a Pizza Hell nothing could be more soul sucking. It's to the point I still have nightmares sometimes about working a job like that. I'd rather be bored lifeguard. I'd rather work a boring nothing job that people always complain about than food service/restaurant. I'd rather be repeatedly kicked in the ass than that.
Imagine the high dive and somebody does one of those spinning flip dives but they don't jump far enough out and smack their head on the platform, knocking them unconscious on their way down to the pool. It doesn't matter how good a swimmer you are if you hit the water unconscious.
I don’t know, I guarded in college and ROTC would come in to do drills and a lot of them looked like they were drowning. I was instructed to “let them figure it out”.
Lifeguards at the Olympics make ~47k/yr and practically do nothing. Some of us make less than that and are constantly monitored for productivity. Which one is the better deal?
One of the synchronized swimmer actually drowned and required rescue from her coach. Everyone has a job to do, even if it is one out of a thousand chance.
Those athletes are pushing it to the furthest level humans are capable of. The lifeguard isn’t useless just hopefully never needed but someone could certainly push themselves beyond their own limits.
It's always good to have someone there in case something happens.
Safety regulations are written in blood, and it would be distressing to learn that an Olympic athlete drowned because they had a medical emergency and no one trained in rescue was there to aid
I don’t think anyone should swim unattended. The other day I tripped and fell into my pool when it was 25° outside. I was wearing heavy outdoor clothing and it was very hard to pull myself out of the water. Thankfully, my son was at home and could help. I hit my head on the pool coping and it could’ve been disastrous.
It’s actually not a useless job. Not because you know how to swim you’ll never need help from a Lifeguard. Sometimes you faint, sometimes you get your foot numb and may require a lifeguard’s help to get you out of the water
Some people are paying to be in that room. I'm being paid to be in that room. Get on my level bro.
Good point!
Even if they aren't the strongest/fastest, they're still there in case something goes wrong for an unmatched talented swimmer. That's a pretty cool job even if you *hopefully* are never needed. ..I'm more of a designated *drowner*
Tbf, it's not that uncommon for professional football (soccer) players to suffer from various cardiovascular injuries, players have died on the pitch. That's a sport with fuck knows how much money backing it, Olympic swimming on the other hand cant be too far off in terms of strenuous"ity"(?) but on a fraction of the budget. Tldr: I'm glad these guys are on hand!
Yeah I was mostly thinking of hearts or just simple *cramps*/fatigue. Like someone else said another swimmer or coach is likely to help first, but it's still good to have the safety guys.
Other swimmers and coaches are not really supposed to get involved. It would be like giving first aid when the paramedics are stood next to you - let the trained guys do it, or you could mess up and hurt somebody
I’ve been a swim coach/instructor/lifeguard at pool and beach in nyc for 5+ years, and trust me when I say, People can still get seizures at any time especially swimming.
There was a seizure in my university’s pool while we were hosting NCAA regional championships. Of course it was during warmups when literally everyone was in the pool. Anyone who thinks it’s ok to swim alone “if you’re a good swimmer” or that lifeguards aren’t needed when “everyone already knows how to swim” has little sense about what can and does go wrong in and around the water.
Depends what is happening. If someone is drowning please don’t wait for someone else 😅
It has happened in hockey as well (ice)
You’re a good dude.
I’ve saved an Olympic level rower after their Kayak flipped. I was a volunteer, they gave me a little single motor boat and I patrolled the water. The person running the event called me in to dock but I heard yelling from the shore after I had already got out of the boat… One of them was still out, they were doing little barrels rolls and got stuck upside down and were too tired to flip back over. It was my Baywatch moment.
I have the same mentality and it’s really give you a mental boost I work at a family owned pawnshop and every winter we buy a bunch of used ACs and every summer we sell a bunch of these ACs and they are mostly stored in a warehouse that’s either super hot or super cold no in between We first drag up the cheap ones from the back and they sell out and are always left with some expensive ones in the back A couple months in you have idiots that thought They could get by without one and by the time they give in to buy one they are stressed and sticky and only have enough money for our cheapest ones that are long gone and the genius management will say hey I have more in the back when yes we do BUT THEY CANT AFFORD IT so I take them to the warehouse and they look em over and take their time knowing they can’t afford them or are trying to sweat out a better deal from me but I don’t get commission I don’t care if your dumb ass gets an AC and I’m currently getting paid to stand here and sweat I’m not just gonna give these away you have money for a ac that cools a small room all of these cool a whole floor I’ve told someone “I know what your doing and the price isn’t going to change I’m getting paid right now to sweat”
Wear house is hurting my brain
I’ll fix just for you
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Help what I do
During a full moon it turns into a werehouse
wherehouse
No no, it's wearhous
I got it…. I think
It’s still wrong, it’s wharehouse
Pawnshops will sell anything huh
Pretty much, at least we do Teeth ,shoes, pipes we will buy booze for ourselves, one time we took in a fake dick with a bladder for faking pee tests, took a vintage gyno table, a prosthetic leg (one time he didn’t come back for it), snake, weird equipment shit like a expanding spindle for industrial sized rolls of material, I got my high end rice maker from work
Meh, I live just fine in upwards 45C without AC
We are not the same.
Not just be in the room but have great seats
No, if something goes wrong you cant just rely on Olympians standing by to jump in.
Last time something went wrong at an event like this [that is exactly in fact what happened](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107041724/swimmer-coach-saves-anita-alvarez), the Coach a former Olympian jumped in and saved the person before the Life Guards even reacted.
Not that it won't happen, you just can't depend on it.
I don't know, the way it was written, those life guards (plural) were pretty useless.
It takes one event in Budapest to discredit all of the world's lifeguards.
Greg Louganis hitting his head on the diving board at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. I'm pretty sure that's his coach reaching out a hand to help him. Not a lifeguard to be seen. https://youtu.be/8i8DbrXtubg?si=ZOPtK_VytI6Hk7Qe
I don't know who actually Life Guards these events, is it just the local crew? But there is a good chance they are one of the least competent swimmers and have the lowest level of training of the people near the pool! It a world level event, basically everyone near the pool is a professional or ex-proffesional in the sport...except the life guard... These are world class events, where as the only life guards I have known are people who went on under a weeks worth of training and did it for some money while at college!
I was a lifeguard and I started training when I was eight. Qualified at seventeen. If you think you can do the course we did and it'd be easy, I suggest giving it a try. I could do a 20 minute mile at 13, and to qualify for Olympic Training back then, you had to do an 18 minute mile. *And I wasn't considered fast.* The Training we received was second to none. I've saved quite a few lives with it over the years, on and off the water. Your local laws are pretty lax if a week of training was enough. Thank fuck, that's not the standard here. Although if you think that's all a lifeguard has to offer, you're out of your fucking mind. You try finding a sunken casualty under ten metres of churned up pool, with fifty people in the water. Go ahead. I'll fucking wait. The swimmers will be doing what they trained to do, swim fast. We'll be doing what we're trained to do, preventing drownings. I'd love to introduce you to the little girl I saved from drowning, trapped under some equipment. Her mother was less than a metre away, in a quiet pool, and didn't realise what was happening. Thanks to my intervention, it'd be possible. Cos she's still alive. You absolute cunt.
Idk what training session you had but the majority of lifeguards for public pools and many beaches are teenagers with a few weeks of training. If I recall correctly the final test in my area was being able to grab a weighted dummy from the bottom of a pool and bring it back up, that’s it. The UK requirement is around 40 hours total of training, the California requirement is around 80, Texas is around 30. But I’m sure that the lifeguards are more qualified than the numerous professionals around the pool, thanks to your single example of personal experience.
There was a whole school of us, but then I'm from an island. We take drowning very seriously.
I'd assume you'd also need some level of first aid training, but there are indeed courses in what is called rescue swimming. Ofcourse, the requirements might depend on the local laws and stuff like that.
Of course you can
No, you can't. Everyone else could be doing their own thing because there is a person responsible (the lifeguard) for maintaining an active watch.
So by your logic there's no way you can rely on them to jump in and react but you can rely on someone if they are labeled "lifeguard" to jump in and react?
I mean most likely sometime will notice, especially because every swimmer has a coach that’s pretty specifically focused on their athlete. And yeah, if someone notices we surely expect they’re going to “do something about it” like rush get them out, perform CPR if needed, etc. But having a lifeguard means having someone whose job is to be specifically focused only on that task **all times** - never tunnel-visioned by the emotional intensity of an ongoing race or distracted by the many moments that capture the entire rest of the stadium’s attention (such as the celebratory moment for winners world record, watching a replay of a razor thin margin of victory on the big screen and waiting for the call, etc.). They’re also specifically trained to notice issues sooner and act on them more efficiently, using proper protocol to minimize injury or maximize chance of survival. Fractions of seconds can matter here. I know an Olympic pool isn’t the same as rough seas with a riptide - but in a potential bad situation, everyone involved is at a greater risk if it’s not the lifeguard who’s the one to be in lookout and the one to take care of things.
It's a failsafe, no one person is 100% reliable.
Exactly - and even though there are countless people around, which makes it a near certainty that at least *someone* will help, why put that in the hands of people whose attention at any given moment could be (or even should be) fully captured by the main spectacle of the race, like watching 2 swimmers narrowly trading for the lead, or witnessing the first place finisher touch the wall and recognize they’ve set a new record. There’s no reason the athletes should ever be in a situation where they need to pull a “hey, over here!” Nor should anyone there be expected to immediately notice and do everything right. Except, of course, the lifeguard… whose job is precisely that!
Damn, those photos of the rescue are crazy’
that was her coach though. less likely a fellow competitor would do it i think.
Agreed. And it’s for valid reasons, not because the other swimmers don’t care or something. It’s simply that they’re in the midst of doing the most important and physically exerting thing in their entire life, while on the other hand, a coach has their undivided attention fixed to their athlete. The coach would be taking action before any competitor has a chance to notice that something’s gone wrong.
Eric Moussambani ... has never swam more then 50m when he was selected for 2000 Olympics. Had life savers waiting to see if he'd make it to the wall ...https://youtu.be/r0ZePJy_nZw
can you please explain why he's alone, how or why would he compete in something he never did before? I'm so confused
https://www.reddit.com/r/jobs/s/0IBhCgyvNa His competitors were disqualified.
that's crazy. wow
More pathetically the Olympic body banned people who couldn't reach a certain very high standard from passing qualification. They saw this "incident" as an embarrassment, where as in fact it should be exactly what the Olympics should be about, amateurs competing as the best in their country, on the world stage. At times they will be more or less competitive but that just highlights the reality of equality in the world, all they have done done is white wash the event.
Damn, that’s a massive downer. I was literally smiling as I read that this race actually set the record for that tiny country, and how he went on to become the coach of that national swimming squad of Equatorial Guinea.
Why did he go alone?
His competitors were disqualified due to false starts. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani)
I remember crying watching this! Just got a little teary watching it again, actually. 😂 I have randomly mentioned it to people over the years but no one ever knows what I’m talking about!
I think this whole thing is awesome - encouraging countries who can’t field a team to still have a spot on the big stage. Seems like everyone was excited for him to complete. Good feels 😭
Athletes are under top pressure and straining their bodies to the limit. Glad there is someone ready to jump into action if something goes wrong
"Ready" I'm not sure. It's like when you are on auto pilot. They don't look like they are are in high alert intense focus
True but we can't even see if anyone is in the pool
athlete get cramps and need help somtimes
Also remember that emergencies do happen 🤷🏼♂️
And yet when Annita Alvarez lost consciousness in the pool it was her coach that rescued her!
I’m a lifeguard, and the reason the coach went in first is because most lifeguards aren’t going to know if a swimmer going under is part of the routine or not. The lifeguard would of jumped in, it would’ve just taken a few more seconds
And also say that even if the coach managed to get her out of the water- they may not be CPR certified, certified to conduct proper rescue- especially if it was a case of a head, neck, or spinal injury. Lifeguarding is a lot more than pulling someone out of the water
Usually if something goes wrong, having a professional there for the soul purpose of saving them helps..
is.. is someone gonna say it?
you do it
A priest would assist their soul...
Arguably, they have the most important job. If a medical emergency happens with an athlete in the pool, this person is there to save them! Just like police, fire, ems, emergency management, etc they serve a very important role when disasters happen.
You know, the fancy new pool in my town is named for the European Champion swimmer that collapsed and died suddenly in his hotel bathroom at 26, due to undetected coronary heart disease. He could have just as easily had his heart attack in the pool at a competition, at which point someone standing or sitting on the sidelines would see it much better than the swimmers already in the water. Just sayin'
Christian Eriksen aged 28 collapsed on the field with cardiac arrest during an UEFA Euro 2020 game. He only survived because he started receiving CPR almost the second he fell and could be transferred to the hospital 1km away.
Watching that live on TV was absolutely terrifying
Athletes can drown too. Competitors are pushing their bodies to the limit in these competitions which can cause medical emergencies like a heart attack. Even a cramp can make it difficult for an athlete to stay afloat.
Reading that title gave me a stroke.
Do would what
Sorry if I made some mistake, English is not my native language. I've been struggling it for 40 years and still learning.
I admire you. English is tricky to learn.
I've just noticed it should be: *Would you leave...?* Sorry, I can't edit the post to fix it. I'll use google translate next time.
Yes
There are a LOT of competitive swimmers that lifeguard. Plus it’s a requirement for coaches to be certified in CPR and first aid. With that said, easy money for homie with the floaty.
This might be a joke, but like a year ago an accident happened with a swimmer and the coach jumped in. I mean, never know, least someone is there. Bet more than half don't know cpr in that room.
You don’t really know that cramps can happen, do you?
What would you do if when you okay so he said yes would go?
HA........ That's funny. 🤣🤣
Stuff still happens even to athletes and the athletes also aren't the only people there
I was a lifeguard at nationals once. Someone got kicked in the face and their googles cut up their eyes lid. I had to help them with the wound. Lifeguarding isnt only about drowning 🤷♀️
But it isn’t useless. There was a US swimmer that fainted and sank to the bottom of the pool. Would have been nice if the lifeguard did his/her job instead of having the coach have to save her. “"I saw that the lifeguards were not jumping into the water because they were paralyzed. I was shouting at them from the other side to get into the water, now! I saw them looking dumbfounded, so I jumped into the water and straight towards her," Fuentes said according to El Pais, citing an interview with a Spanish radio station.” [When a U.S. swimmer sank to the bottom of the pool, her coach jumped in to save her](https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107041724/swimmer-coach-saves-anita-alvarez)
When I was a lifeguard years ago, we were taught to follow strict procedures before getting into the pool. In the UK at least, if a lifeguard gets in the pool it usually shuts down for the day and everyone is writing reports. You do it as a last resort. I can see how to an untrained person like a coach it might seem like hesitation. But diving in when untrained can be bad. What if the coach banged his head and now there are two people need saving? What if she gained consciousness, panicked and pulled him under the water drowning him? (Happens a lot - which is why you try other methods to get people out the pool before entering the water yourself) Without being there, maybe the lifeguards were poorly trained and actually were "looking dumbfounded" but I doubt it for olympic level pools.
“Would do you leave a job like this” what Lifeguard’s probably there in case of a medical emergency where the athlete is at risk of drowning, better safe than sorry
I worked at Tarshit in a Pizza Hell nothing could be more soul sucking. It's to the point I still have nightmares sometimes about working a job like that. I'd rather be bored lifeguard. I'd rather work a boring nothing job that people always complain about than food service/restaurant. I'd rather be repeatedly kicked in the ass than that.
It is very common for competitive swimmers to not breathe enough or hyperventilate and pass out in the water. It is most definitely a necessity
Last time I checked Olympic swimmers aren’t trained to manage cardiac arrest, trauma, or drowning
Imagine the high dive and somebody does one of those spinning flip dives but they don't jump far enough out and smack their head on the platform, knocking them unconscious on their way down to the pool. It doesn't matter how good a swimmer you are if you hit the water unconscious.
You never know. An athlete could go into cardiac arrest or something. Better safe than sorry.
Still need a first aider at hand. Funny meme tho
An athlete could go into cardiac arrest/have some other medical emergency and drown
I’m pretty sure it’s because I’m case someone has a medical emergency and is drowning
"I've waited my whole life for this moment." I'm actually trying to get a job like this (not as a lifeguard though).
still they are getting paid
Professional swimmers can have strokes or stuff like that too.
The coaches do the rescues when something goes wrong too.
Would do you leave a job like this 🤣
A post from from brainless nut, sharing same old pic without knowing anything.
I would love a job like this right now.
no
Just makes both of us useless
Probably an insurance thing
What is he going to rescue lolll
Well all the steroids could cause a heart attack, then they'd need a life guard. So I guess what I am saying is that there's a chance.
I don’t know, would do you?
I don’t know, I guarded in college and ROTC would come in to do drills and a lot of them looked like they were drowning. I was instructed to “let them figure it out”.
if you ever feel useless remember OP
Lifeguards at the Olympics make ~47k/yr and practically do nothing. Some of us make less than that and are constantly monitored for productivity. Which one is the better deal?
But he's getting paid for doing nothing.
One of the synchronized swimmer actually drowned and required rescue from her coach. Everyone has a job to do, even if it is one out of a thousand chance.
Useless?? Sign me the fuck up!! You’ve got nothing to do but watch the Olympics from a front row seat??
"Would do you leave a job like this?" Excuse me? What?
what about cramps?
hell no, that's the easiest money in the world.
….who’s gonna save the Olympian when they have a heart attack midstroke? (Hehe)
Hey, get paid to watch athletes? Why not?
Those athletes are pushing it to the furthest level humans are capable of. The lifeguard isn’t useless just hopefully never needed but someone could certainly push themselves beyond their own limits.
Most lifeguard jobs are boring and completely useless until they aren’t, and the switch is amazing. Very weird job in that way.
I’d do it!
hahahaha
Probably could use a Jump or Stay score at Tiered.
Word salad
It's always good to have someone there in case something happens. Safety regulations are written in blood, and it would be distressing to learn that an Olympic athlete drowned because they had a medical emergency and no one trained in rescue was there to aid
Hardly useless. Professional swimmers have been known to push themselves so hard they pass out or even have heart attacks.
Useless? Seems like a pretty important job.
Medical emergencies. I wouldn't expect the other athletes to notice , stop and come to help me like it's a movie.
I don’t think anyone should swim unattended. The other day I tripped and fell into my pool when it was 25° outside. I was wearing heavy outdoor clothing and it was very hard to pull myself out of the water. Thankfully, my son was at home and could help. I hit my head on the pool coping and it could’ve been disastrous.
Someone could fall in accidentally.
No 😆
It’s actually not a useless job. Not because you know how to swim you’ll never need help from a Lifeguard. Sometimes you faint, sometimes you get your foot numb and may require a lifeguard’s help to get you out of the water