Lifeguards Service

Lifeguard Service aims both to offer a valuable service to the local community, and to provide students with skills for life, from general sea awareness and safety, to surf lifesaving and first aid.

In their first year, service members gain professional pool and beach lifeguarding qualifications and a PADI First Aid award. Students also learn surfing and sea kayaking to stimulate further awareness and respect for the sea. Some community service is undertaken during the first year in the form of swimming lessons given to children from a local primary school.

 

The month of August, at the start of the second year, sees all the lifeguards providing daily cover for a nearby busy bathing and surf beach. We also run three very successful service periods in West Wales, which are used to experience different surf beaches and coastal environments, and further our knowledge of the sea. 
There are a variety of community support roles to play in service for our second year students, and this is a time for specialisation: we offer swimming lessons to children from local primary schools, work with the children from the local surf lifesaving club, offer swimming lessons for our non-swimmers at the college, offer surfing lessons and lifeguard both of the college's swimming pools as required. Other second year students provide cover for the kayaking and surf lifesaving sessions, or they become group instructors - a key role in the service, the group instructor is responsible for the training of a group of 6 or 7 first year lifeguard students.

 

Lifeguards also run a project week in Pembrokeshire, which is a good opportunity for the team to perfect their paddling and surfing skills.

Lifeguards is probably the most physical of the college services but it remains open to all, whether they are fit or complete non-swimmers. Comprehensive and progressive training sees service members progress to a high degree of competence, and all that is needed is a willingness to learn, and an acceptance of the cold Welsh sea in the winter!

Lifeguard Service - PS

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