Pictured is a lifeguard in Long Beach giving a public tour. While public information efforts seek to reduce accidents and rescues at California beaches, the past year’s record warm temperatures in California have driven people to the beach in record numbers. Daylight savings this past week has helped lifeguards–people are leaving beaches an hour earlier.
The data is in and it seems California’s lifeguards have never been busier than this year when more people went to beach and the most ever were rescued.
While most rescues are caused by people being caught in rip currents, not all are accidentally. Yesterday a friend of SeeCalifornia.com staff who works on Huntington Beach Pier rescued a man attempting to commit suicide. The suicidal man jumped off the HB Pier and then began clinging to the pier, which is covered with sharp barnacles. Our friend, Brian, ran to lifeguard Tower Zero and grabbed the lifesaver, throwing it to the man who would have drowned.
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