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Drowning Prevention and Rip
Current Awareness
Lifeguard Strategy
•Educate
•Prevent
•Rescue
Los Alamitos School District
3rd Grade Water Safety Education
•The Marine Safety Department presented to
roughly 720 third graders across the district
•24 third-grade classes
–Beach Safety
–Rip Current awareness
–Boating safety
–How to avoid stingray injuries
Preventative actions
•2025 preventative actions, 2219
•Lifeguards are proactive and try to warn
people of dangers including rip currents
•We teach community CPR classes
•Maintain a City-wide AED program
•Junior Lifeguard program
•“When in doubt, check it out”
Rescues
•Over the last six weeks we’ve made over 100
rescues
•We are currently in our full summer
deployment.
Rip Currents
Estimated that 80-90% of ocean drownings are caused by rip currents.
Rip Currents account
for 80% of rescues &
drowning deaths
Beach Safety Tips
•NEVER swim alone.
•JOIN a Junior Lifeguard Program.
•NEVER dive headfirst into unknown or shallow
water!!
•BEWARE OF STINGRAYS!! Shuffle your feet!
•Swim NEAR a Lifeguard.
–United States Lifesaving Association has calculated
that a person will fatally drown while attending a
beach protected by USLA affiliated lifeguards at 1 in
18 million.