Friday, August 31, 2012

Rating Year 2011 - 2012 Is A Wrap!


Will Rogers Lifeguard HQ, Aug. 31, 2012 at approx. 7 pm.  Flag at half mast in honor of Neil Armstrong, R.I.P.

 That's it!  Done!  Finished.  History...
















See you next rating year!... Sept. 1, 2012!

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(All photos by & Copyright Will Maguire 2012.  All Rights Reserved.)

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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

"All Hands On Deck!... With FINS !!!..."


("Zuma Beach With Fins".  Photo by & Copyright 2010 Will Maguire.)


Heads up!  Update!  August 30th:  Just in from Robert Janis, OLS (Ret.), aka, "BJ", from Northern Section:   

"Will,

I get all my surf forecast information from
www.wetsand.com

If their forecast holds with two south swells converging on Saturday and Sunday, with full moon high/low tides,ocean temp at zuma is 65, holiday weekend, it may be the "perfect storm"

In addition with the full moon high tides and big surf, there could be beach erosion.

I'll get some digitals of big zuma and send them on to you.

BJ"

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*** 10-4,  Thanks BJ!  ***

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Woo Hoo!

Surfline.com and others are predicting four to six foot (4' - 6') surf by this Friday, August 31, 2012 in both Santa Monica and Venice.  Twelve Foot Faces at the Avenues, the Venice Pier, Ocean Park, etc. !   Sorry Torrance, Redondo, and Lomita Beach... you'all ain't gonna get any of this swell, so pack up your boards and head west and come on up to Central Section and get some of this, including all you 4th year Southern Section Rookies!  :-)

Pack your Fins!... cuz it looks like Summer 2012 is going to go out with a Bang and a Cowabunga!...

And just to get you pumped up even further, we once again share with you all the spectacular photo by LACo OL Nathalie Brouwer (Ret.) of the dynamic southern swell that smacked into the Venice Pier in late July 2009, and which was featured in an earlier blog post about that '09 Swell at:

http://countyrecurrent.blogspot.com/2009/07/summer-storm-warning.html 

(Photo above by & Copyright Nathalie Brouwer, Friday, July 24, 2009, shows the Venice Pier under siege by the Summer Storm Surf that barreled it's way across the Pacific Ocean and over 4,000 nautical miles driven by wind).

*** Thanks again, Nathalie!  ***

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Be careful out there!... and wear your Fins!

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Thursday, August 23, 2012

"Gnarly save!", by Roger Wojahn

Photo by & Copyright Roger Wojahn 2012.  All Rights Reserved. Used here with permission.  Please do not reproduce with out permission.

An amazing thing happened on Friday afternoon, August 17, 2012 on Santa Monica South at Tower #27.  A bodyboarder collapsed in the shallow water from a heart attack.  Other swimmers saw him and lifeguards quickly responded and brought him back to life. One beach patron, a local surfer named Roger Wojahn, witnessed the whole thing and took this amazing photo above which captures a moment in time when two very experienced L.A. County Lifeguards, both Ocean Lifeguard Specialists (OLS), one of whom is a Paramedic, working on the victim who was not breathing and had no pulse.  Well here, let Roger tell you all about it.

"Gnarly save. This body surfer was rolling around in the surf essentially dead. At least 10 minutes of radical CPR and a couple defibs and airway clearings and he began to breathe on his own congrats to LA lifeguards and LA fire!" (Roger Wojahn, August 17, 2012).

The next day Roger had more to say about what witnessing this extraordinary event meant to him:

"Witnessing yesterday's life-saving experience made a powerful impression on me. Normally, I look away from things that are too intense. I can't watch. Heck, I can barely get my teeth cleaned at the dentist. So it was unusual for me to be so immersed in such an event.

I'd been somewhat lost in my own introspection when it exploded right in front of me and I immediately became aware and stopped thinking and started witnessing. Everyone just arrived and did their job with no thought. No one analyzed, no one pondered, no one really even conversed except to make clipped short communications. The lifeguards just acted; they responded.

I was eerily detached from any particular feelings while it was going down. The chest compressions were so urgent and took so long that you could feel that this man was probably not going to be resuscitated. He was dead. But either way, the ocean flowed in and out, the seagulls turned and flew and everything seemed peaceful in a strange way. Whatever happened was just in the flow of life. I had no anxiety and no fear. I just observed. Either way, life was just doing its thing.

After all the work, and feeling the fatigue and fading hope of the rescuers we were all just amazed when he finally took a breath and exhibited a pulse. From what I understand from my friends on the force, CPR generally either works quickly or it doesn't work at all. That they worked on this guy so long and he lived was amazing. If these men and women had not been there he would have remained dead for sure. On the one hand, you could say he had a pretty bad day. But on the other hand, he had a pretty incredible day. I wish that I would have made a movie on my phone so that he could have seen that he was dead and became alive.

Later on, I introduced myself to the young first responding lifeguard. He was a kid of about 18. He was already back up in the tower on the job. We talked for a bit as he was still taking it all in. I know this young man will pull many people from harm's way and he will also have some people die on his watch. But rarely will he have someone come back to life like that before his very eyes. I wished I could have bought him a tequila shot last night and I thanked him for all of us.

Once again, I was reminded of the fragility of life. We get so caught up in our minds that we separate ourselves from life itself. We get caught up in what "should" or "shouldn't" happen. This just happened and these people simply responded. That seems like a good way to live our lives. We can all be alive. We can all be responders.

Remember that this is it. Life is precious and fleeting. For each of us, today could be our last living moment. Open your eyes, open your heart, immerse yourself in life and give it everything you've got. There is no reason to over think and judge life. We can just embrace it and live it! I, for one, am grateful.

May your weekend be filled with consciousness and bliss.

Namaste."
 
*** Many Thanks to Roger Wojahn for allowing us to share his photo and remarks. ***

(Photo and Remarks by & Copyright Roger Wojahn 2012. All Rights Reserved. Used here with permission.)

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Additional Remarks by OL Cheri Ellington (used here with permission):

"Here is how it went. I was notified by some patrons who saw the victim. They alerted me and I ran to the victim. I also had help dragging him out of the water (shallow water). I told a bystander to go to Tower 26 for help. I also told another bystander to get my first aid kit (inside was a face mask).
I started 30 compressions after checking for a pulse (none). By the time I was at 30, Jeff Little was there with a face mask and proceeded to give him breaths. Gordon Freeman was there next, he offered to take over on the compressions. Everybody else was there in no time at all. We then gave the victim 2 rounds of shocks. After that I was released to go watch the water at my tower. A few minutes later there was clapping from the bystanders. Capt Kirk Thomas told me that he was alert and talking. That whole experience was amazing for me. We all worked together so well. Everybody was encouraging and compliments all around.  I hope I can remember all who responded. Jonah Russell was the OLS that day. Tito Bourget came from Venice, the Rescue 200 Unit with OLS Pat O'Neill and his partner (I can't remember his name), and Section Chief Mickey Gallager.  That was pretty much it. I really appreciated all the help and the quick response. The patrons at SMS rock.

Cheri"

Additional Remarks by OL Jeff Little (used here with permission):  

Hey Will -

That was a great write-up from Roger (Wojahn, who took the photo)!  I really feel I couldn't do much better to describe the situation.

Here are some other pertinent facts regarding the call:

- Cheri Ellington was first on scene in front of T27
- I was 2nd on scene about 30 seconds of Cheri.  I had been in T26
- Gordon Freeman was 3rd on scene 2-3 minutes after me (he was at T28 and I believe he was the "young lifeguard" Roger was referring to
- OLS Jonas Russel was 4th on scene responding from the parking lot behind T26 as he was tending to a sting ray victim
-OLS Russel administered AED within 30 seconds upon arrival and delivered shock
- After that it's hard to remember the exact order of who showed up but my guess in order would be:
- SMS Cpt Kirk Thomas, 23-2 Tito Bourget and Hayk Avagyan, Dylan Jones (from BWSM), Pat O'Neill and ? from LR200, and then Chief Gallagher.

Overall, it was a great team effort and everyone played a vital role from first on scene, Cheri Ellington to Chief Gallagher who was directing personnel.

Thanks Will!

- Jeff

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*** Many Thanks to both Cheri and Jeff for sharing their remarks of this event. ***

Postscript: We learned this morning (Friday, Aug. 24th) that the victim eventually passed away at the hospital despite the multiple efforts and the two to three times that he was revived with the AED and CPR by both the lifeguards and the paramedics.  Our most sincere condolences go out to the family and friends of this man who passed away.  Without the efforts of the emergency personnel on scene this man would most likely have been pronounced dead where he apparently fell from a heart attack in the shallow water.  Nevertheless, this is a story of extraordinary courage and a strong endorsement of the training our lifeguards receive and whose efforts were, in fact, successful in reviving the victim, at least for a short period of time.  We are so very proud of our lifeguards who performed so valiantly and with such courage and focus.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

"Have you got your days in yet?!...

One week to go. If you don't have your days in you better go out and buy some brown kiwi shoe polish cuz you might just get booted out otherwise! 

Steps 4 and 5 (seniority) need only 4 days in a tower.

All the rest of you youngers guys and gals need to get 10 days per year in the tower.

August 31st is the last day.  Lots of work available with the list being run most days, according to the lifeguard grapevine.

So get out there and get your days in. We don't want to lose any of you from the list!

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Friday, August 17, 2012

ZUMA '92 CREW!... Twenty Years Ago!


"Back in the day"... Indeed!   Recognize some names here?!...  The stories that could be told...  and that SHOULD be told!...  Share a 'comment' below  OR  send an email to the undersigned so we can post it here!  Much needs to be said to commemorate this '92 Crew that were also Taplin Champions!

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Tuesday, August 14, 2012

"America's Finest Paddle Race"

Just in from Buddy Bohn:

From:     Buddy Bohn
Subject:      "America's Finest Paddle Race"  (Sat., Sept. 22, 2012, San Diego, Calif.)
Date:     August 13, 2012

Dear fellow Paddlers, Lifeguards, Waterwomen & Watermen,

I'd like to take this opportunity to make you aware of a new and exciting paddling event happening soon in San Diego. It's being called, "America's Finest Paddle Race", and will be taking place Saturday, September 22, 2012, at Point Loma's 'Liberty Station'. You can click on the link below for directions and more specific details. 

Event organizers, Alf & Mara Laws (of Eye Paddle), have many years experience as both competitors and organizers of ocean events locally, nationally, & internationally. Their goal is to put on a first class well organized paddling event that will be FUN & competitive for all involved. It’s a community event benefitting the Wounded Warriors Project ($5 of every entry & all raffle proceeds will be donated to that charity).

Please take a moment to help me get the word out and encourage your paddling friends to participate.

For more info you can e-mail Mara at:  info@eyepaddle.com   or    call 805 766 6294

All the race registration info can be found on:
 http://www.islesurfboards.com/americas_finest_paddle_race.aspx

Facebook event
“America’s Finest” Paddle Race
https://www.facebook.com/events/401763893185522/

Yours in Life Saving,
Buddy

Buddy Bohn
Co-Founder Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race 1982-2012
LA County Lifeguards- retired Section Chief 1968 - 2005
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Monday, August 13, 2012

L.A. County Wins 2012 USLA National Lifeguard Championships!!!

Monday, August 13, 2012

Heads up!

Over the weekend L.A. County won its 26th consecutive National Championship! 




Wow!  Congratulations to all of our competitors on this very special victory and accomplished with only 39 competitors who made the trip back east to Cape May, NJ.


LACo Capt. Chris Linkletter, above (4th from left), prepares for the start of the Final Open Ironwoman event. (photo by & Courtesy of Aristide Economopoulos. Used here with permission (and thanks to Adam Sandler for the assist).

Excerpted Stories:

•  Per LACo Lifeguards Twitter Feed (Saturday, Aug. 11th at 4:04 pm):    LA County Lifeguards @LACoLifeguards

"Congratulations to our team of @LACoLifeguards for winning the #USLANationals Championship Overall for the 26th consecutive year!!!!!!!!"

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•  Summary of LACo Lifeguards USLA National Champs 2012, by Adam Sandler: 

"LACoLA nabbed its 26th consecutive USLA National Lifeguarding Championships win Saturday by topping perennial rival Monmouth County, NJ 630 to 613.5 points. Also, Taylor Spivey, who has been making a name for herself this competition season, was the Women's points leader with 66.25. Teammate Tandis Morgan came in 4th with 34 points. Of the Top 10 Women, four were from the LACoLA team. Brian Murphy won the Board Race and the Ironman, among others, and was second in Men's points (42.5) to leader Monmouth's Matt Nunnally (53). Tandis nabbed the 3rd spot in the grueling Ironwoman, followed by Spivey in 4th. Notably, five of the 10 Ironwoman winners were from LACoLA, including Renee Locarnini (5th), Bridget Rome (7th) and Capt. Chris Linkletter, who came in 10th. And no recap would be complete without a mention of Eldin Onsgard (in the 60 - 64 age group), who competed in nine events and won four of them, including the Ironman, Board Race, 2km beach run and wait for it.... Beach Flags!

All in all, a good showing. I'm told the humidity was at times oppressive.

More later,

Adam"

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*** Thanks Adam ! ***

•  And here's a link to a story posted by LACo OL Micah Carlson on the Results of the 2012 USLA National Championships:

             http://www.app.com/article/20120811/NJSPORTS/308110058

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Sunday, August 12, 2012

"The Dick Haddock Race", by Bob Janis

34th Annual End Of Summer Tradition - Dick Haddock Race

Zuma Beach to Paradise Cove - swim- run-swim-run-swim-run-swim

Date: Monday, August 20, 2012

Time: 1800 hrs.


Start : Northern Section LG Headquarters

Finish: Paradise Cove Beach Cafe.

Contact: OLS Ryan Addison and/or Tim Ryan at  310 457-2525

OCEAN LIFEGUARDS ONLY.


Zuma Lifeguard HQ: Start of the Dick Haddock Race
Course Description:

START on the sand at Zuma Beach - Northern Section Headquarters

SWIM around Baywatch Malibu Bouy ( approx 500 yds.)
RUN down to Pt. Dume ( approx. 2 miles)
SWIM around Pt. Dume into Big Dume cove ( approx. 800 meters )
RUN- down to Little Dume Gulley ( approx. 1 mile )
SWIM around bouy in little dume gulley ( 750 yds )
RUN down to Paradise Cove Beach Café ( approx. ¾ mile )
SWIM arounds final bouy ( approx. 500 yds. )
FINISH – on the sand at Paradise Cove Beach Café.

DICK RACE HISTORY:

The Dick Race is named after Captain Dick Haddock for exemplary lifeguarding service at Zuma beach, beginning in 1948. Dick served the community for 37 years.

Initially Organized by Rescue Boat Captain Randy DeGregori in August 1979
.  The orginial course in 1979 is the current one and designed to be run at a LOW tide evening in August.

The Dick Haddock race is also known by several other titles:

“ The Slippery Dick race”
“The Dick Race.”

When Randy Degregori  transferred to Central as a beach Captain, OLS Bob Janis took over the yearly organization of the Dick Race.  OLS Janis continued the tradition until his retirement in July 2009. The current Dick race organizers are OLS Ryan Addison and OLS Tim Ryan.
 
This is a race for some and a rite of summer passage for most.


-  Winners normally finish around 45 minutes.
        
Section Chief Boiteux has always supported  the Dick Race by committing Baywatch Malibu and PWC crews to participate as course safety monitors. The Baywatch and PWC crews follow the race participants along the coastal route.

At the finish in Paradise Cove, there is Clam Chowder and French Bread donated by Paradise Cove Beach Café served in the fire pit area.

Over the years to build ocean lifeguarding for the future, Malibu High water polo, Pepperdine water polo, LMU water polo, State, northern , central, and southern ocean lifeguards have participated.

Come celebrate the end of summer passage with the 34th annual Dick Haddock Race at Zuma Beach on Monday, August 20, 2012.

Respectfully submitted,

OLS Bob Janis ( Ret.)
Robert Janis, aka, BJ, shown above getting in a workout in the garage at Zuma HQ.
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10-4.  Thanks very much, BJ! 

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"County Recurrent" Photo Addendum:

The Baywatch Malibu buoy out front of Zuma HQ.

Starting running...


keep running...  woo hoo!...

Pt. Dume !... get ready to swim again!...

Start swimming!...
..... the rest of the course is left to the competitors' imaginations... 

Good luck to this year's competitor's!  And careful running over the rocks...  woo hoo!...

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Thursday, August 9, 2012

More Holes and Ankle Breakers! Be Careful Out There!

This morning in a walk along Santa Monica South I came upon an absolutely ENORMOUS hole in the sand that had been dug above the high tide line the previous day/evening.  A bit further along I came across a classic ankle breaker in the sand along the top of the berm that could easily be missed by someone walking on the beach.  Have a look at the photos of these two man and shovel dug traps!
This sucker was 3 - 4 feet deep and across! 

Ankle breaker, aka tunnel

Be careful out there!   

The bigger hole would have swallowed the front end of one of our beach vehicles!  And yes, I filled it in... the ankle breaker too.

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And then there was this grocery bag and empty "Forty" (40 oz Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) bottle) under the pier. Honestly!  It was not mine!   I carried it on over to SMS #16 and had to convince OLS Pat O'Neill, just in from a dory workout, that it was not mine and I was just trying to get to the trash can to throw it away. 


And if you are all waiting for the other shoe to drop, don't hold your breath cuz I think Davey Jones has got it!...


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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

August Days Of Summer...

August!... the Lion of Summer!  It's Here.  It's Been Brought!  Get Out There!  And we are in the eyeballs of a heat wave too!  Temps in the valley this week thru the weekend are in the triple digits with Temps on the beach around 80 degrees Fahrenheit  (or "F"!).  Yeah, really!...

So to celebrate this Epic Month of Summer, we are bringing you a photo gallery of shots from, when else?!...,  August 2012 So Far!...  Enjoy! 
 
"Aussies in August!"...  The Wieland Shield - Victoria Surf Lifesaving Competition Team at the LACo Lfieguard 2012 Medal of Valor Dinner, Aug. 2nd.

Thank you, Kevin Barry!... for your catering and event management at the 2012 Medal of Valor Dinner and for your staff selection...
Speaking of August... Veteran LACo Recurrent (Ret.), Jim Graham and his lovely wife at the recent 2012 Medal of Valor Dinner at Seaside Lagoon in Redondo Beach on Aug. 2nd.
The 2012 Venice Championship Intracrew Relay Team Photo. Courtesy of Dave Carpenter.

Venice Intracrew Team Member, OL Chris Newman (aka, son of Newmie)
True Story. Will Rogers Tower #15, Sat., Aug. 4, 2012: The Pizza Guy said the order for 8 pizzas said to deliver it to Tower #15...  X-Ref: "On Duty Pizza".  I redirected the pizzas to the 7 year olds birthday party just adjacent to the tower...


Krispy Kreme Donut courtesy of the 7 year old birthday boy's mom.

"Striking A Pose!"... OL Andrew Czer (Caesar)

2012 Central Section A Team Taplin Relay Champions

Las Tunas Fly By, Aug. 5th

USCG Helicopter Fly By: Fisheye View

Las Tunas @ Sunset...

"LACo Lifeguard Beefcake".  L2R: OLS Eric Wylie and OL Bob Valandra, at SMS Tower #26, Aug. 6th.

OL Ivan Rodriguez "watching the water" at SMS Tower #22, Aug. 2nd.

Just another low tide Sunset along SMS.... Aug. 2nd.
 That's August so far....


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Monday, August 6, 2012

Inter vs. Intra: The Debate, The Logic... by Adam Sandler



From:     Adam Sandler
Subject:     Intra vs. Inter
 Date:     August 6, 2012 2:37:25 PM PDT
  
Kudos to Venice for their win in The Bud Stevenson Intracrew Medley Relay.

But I wish we could all agree on whether it's Intracrew or Intercrew.

The good (and wise) folks at ISF call it the "Intracrew" on all their literature, and I've seen it both ways on LACoLA and LACoFD missives. And a perusal of Google results will show it inconsistently interchanging between the two ways. Or should that be intrachanging between the two ways?

However, for those History Majors and Cardiac Surgeons among us:

If it's competition among just the different sections, it should be Intercrew.

But, if guards from Central are also competing against other guards from Central, then its Intracrew.

For example, if there are Venice and Santa Monica teams competing, then technically the whole damn thing is Intracrew. And if there are A and B teams from Venice and Santa Monica competing, then it's Intracrew -- carved in stone. So Maguire: Change your headline!

I'm just sayin'.

Best,

Adam
Media guy/Paddler/Lifeguard

Adam Sandler, at right, explaining Inter vs. Intra to LACo Veteran OL, Eldin Onsgard
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LOL!  10-4, Adam!  This is a debate that will, no doubt, continue to rage!  There will hopefully be some 'comments' following this posting as well.

And this Plaque below is of absolutely no help with respect to this burning debate except that it is unequivocally clear that it is for the 3rd place finish of our Santa Monica Taplin Relay team in 1983... no bell got rung that night except when Kenner Snyder tried to hit on another lifeguard's date...  just sayin'...

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