Roaring Springs - Lifegaurd training!

I am in a Roaring Springs camp. It's a camp where you learn what lifegaurds do, and how they do it. Such as rescuing. Today, we learned how to use a spinal board. A spinal board is a wooden board that lifegaurds slip into the water, pull a person on it, and strap them on it, also, if the person is complaining about neck, or back problems. We have learned alot, and tomorrow, I will tell you everything that we did.



TRAINING THE LIFEGAURDS!

We had to help train the lifegaurds today. We were Audits. An audit is someone who is told by a lifegaurd's boss or councelor to pretend to be either, unconcious, or drowning.
There was a few kids who did the drop slides. We had to spread the audits out as much as we could. Four where rescued from the drop slides. One girl was right there, obviously drowning (pretending) and the lifeguard said "The stairs are right there, you know." It was bad. There was about four kids that pretended to drown in the wavepool. One is named Nicole. And she was in the deep end. The closest lifeguard to her was a guy. But the girl on the other side of the pool saw her first, so SHE "saved" Nicole. The guy felt bad.
I had to go in the Lazy River and drop a fake baby dummy in it to see if a lifegaurd noticed it. Yes, they DID notice. I had to do that in the wavepool, too. A kid from my camp named Dillon, pretended to be like already... unconcious, I think. He was face down,body floating on top of the water... when the lifegaurd noticed, she blew her whistle to see if he would hear and pop up. But he didn't she blew it about 2 more times, 10 seconds in between whistles. (Dillon lifted his head up to breathe...... but she didnt notice). Finally she blew her whistle and jumped in. She was worried! She pulled him on her lifegaurd tube, and quickley pulled him to the side. She tried opening his airway by moving his jaw. While she was doing that, she got out her CPR tools. Dillon thought he should still be pretending unconcious, because he thought that our councelor would stay stop right when the lifegaurd got him. He knew that he wouldn't let her do CPR, but he was milking it until then. All of a sudden, Dillon yelled "Ow!" and we looked at him. And the lifegaurd was like "Your not dead...." and all of us, watching from the bridge above said "He's an audit!" And the lifegaurd laughed. But she did really great trying to save him!
HAVE A GWEAT NIGHT