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US lifeguard shortage may mean summer pool closings
You may have to "Swim At Your Own Risk" this summer.

By Haley Yamada
June 09, 2022, 9:57 PM

This summer, Americans across the country are going to have to find new ways to beat the heat. A nationwide lifeguard shortage is expected to leave thousands of public pools closed and beaches under “Swim At Your Own Risk” rules.



Although exacerbated by the pandemic, Fisher said that lifeguarding has been on the decline for decades. Some of this is in part to the decline in teenagers working summer jobs.



In 2000, more than half of the teenagers in the U.S. were working a summer job. In 2019, only 35.8% of teens worked over the summer. The number dropped even more during the pandemic and fewer than a third of U.S. teens worked in the summer of 2020, according to a 2021 study by the Pew Research Center.

Fewer teenagers are entering the workforce, and, due to the pandemic, many lifeguard certification training sessions were postponed or canceled. Now entering the third summer of COVID-19, for those who may have already been certified, their two year lifeguard certificates have expired, leading to an even larger deficit of working lifeguards.

“[Lifeguard] candidates come into the workforce at the age of 15, 16, 17 years of age, and usually stay with us until their junior or senior year of university,” said Fisher. “With the first year of the pandemic. We didn't get the new recruits. We didn't have the ability to renew the certifications that were expiring from two years prior.”

Fisher said that the pandemic also disrupted seasonal lifeguards who come to the U.S. through the J-1 visa program over the summer. The program was established In 2011 by the federal government for scholars, professors and visitors obtaining medical or business training within the United States.




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Dave from down under wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 7:14 am Ship was usually faster

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 9:06 am I admit, we didn't make our boys get summer jobs until last year, when they were 19 and 21.

Whereas by the time I turned 21, I had been a paperboy in two different cities,

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 6:47 am

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:33 am Key points:

The HMS Gloucester was travelling from southern England to Scotland.

You can walk from southern England to Scotland. You can also ride a horse. The ocean is dangerous, but lucky ducks, you can make the trip without ever leaving the soil of England and Scotland. In 1979 I took a train from Scotland to southern England, which is way more safe than an old sailing ship.

Why in the world would anyone want to be on a ship going from southern England to Scotland?

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 12:34 pm

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 6:47 am

Dave from down under wrote: ↑Fri Jun 10, 2022 8:33 am Key points:

The HMS Gloucester was travelling from southern England to Scotland.

You can walk from southern England to Scotland. You can also ride a horse. The ocean is dangerous, but lucky ducks, you can make the trip without ever leaving the soil of England and Scotland. In 1979 I took a train from Scotland to southern England, which is way more safe than an old sailing ship.

Why in the world would anyone want to be on a ship going from southern England to Scotland?

By 1682 James' conversion to Roman Catholicism had become public knowledge. Attempts had been made in Parliament to exclude him from succession to the throne. James was not personally popular. His assassination had been called for.

A sea voyage may have seemed safer than a long slow overland trip during which assassination might have been attempted.

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 6:43 pm These are my grandbrats. I keep them (now that summer is here) 3 days a week. M-T-W and as you can see, here they are on a balance beam on the pool deck and the pool is pretty much the only place they want to be on theses 30 wooded acres at this time of year. But I'd like to direct your attention to their feet. 4 feet, 4 difference socks. I have never seen them come over here wearing a pair matching socks. "Two feet need 2 socks that's all". They don't have to match you just need two. I'm ADHD, left handed, dyslexic and have multiple obsessive-compulsive disorders. One of which is that your frigging socks need to match! I've given up on them ever wearing matching socks...

Grandbrats.jpg

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 5:38 pm We are living through a significant event in John Deere history.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Sun Jun 12, 2022 5:38 pm We are living through a significant event in John Deere history.

neonzx wrote: ↑Sat Jun 11, 2022 10:48 am
*high-five* Paperboy here at age 12!

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 12:28 pm I was late to a softball game once and grabbed two socks on the way out the door. That day we won and I hit a triple, so I kept wearing these socks for games.

“Your socks don’t match”
“I know! Aren’t they fun? I have another pair just like them at home.”

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 1:36 pm

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 12:28 pm I was late to a softball game once and grabbed two socks on the way out the door. That day we won and I hit a triple, so I kept wearing these socks for games.

“Your socks don’t match”
“I know! Aren’t they fun? I have another pair just like them at home.”