Author: American Lifeguard

This eventually involved specially designed rescue stations with personnel and rescue boats. In 1786, The United States Made the Humane Society of Massachusetts for lifeguardstraining. They also built houses to shelter shipwreck survivors on their shores. By the mid-1800s it had 18 boat stations and rope launch equipment. The manual of the time advised: “Tear the clothes of the injured person and wipe or dry his body with flannels. Place it near the fire and introduce hot air through its mouth through a cannula. Of course, if this did not revive the drowned man, they would finish him off! However,…

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