Interesting. I was a guard and a guard trainer for ten years. Over the years, we realized that ventilations weren’t as important as compressions. We had our masks, and were expected to perform ‘traditional’ cpr, but unless the vic was pulled directly from the water, compressions came first — and really, if they did come from the water, the first to vents were to prime the pump to get the water out of the lungs.
You couldn’t pay me to be a guard these days, though. Not worth the legal hassles. People are so litigation crazy, they can save themselves as far as I’m concerned.
Guys, I’m also an English teacher. “To” should, of course, be “two” in the last sentence of the first paragraph. I hang my head in shame.
I was an active beach goer in my younger days and especially when I lived in Miami. Whether something active such as sports or just being a sun bum. A legitimate question, when you were a lifeguard was there a concern about sun exposure especially around the face? I wonder how masks would function in the sun especially with perspiration.