Lifeguards will be back at full staff starting this weekend as Spring Break gets underway.
) - Last year, Gulf Shores lifeguards performed 249 water rescues, up 60 percent from 2022. The vast majority of those were due to swimmers being caught in rip currents.“Lifeguards can only do so much. We’re not in every spot in every time but swimming near a lifeguard, a lifeguard stand, there’s a one in eighteen million percent chance that you drown in that area so we’re trying to do everything we can to make sure that we don’t lose any lives.
This rip current simulator being demonstrated by Lieutenant Dylan Hess with the Beach Safety division is a great tool the department’s been using for almost a year. They bring it to festivals, civic events and classrooms. Those who saw it in action today, like Larry and Patricia Perez who are vacationing in Gulf Shores, said it helps clear things up.
A great comparison beach safety officials use when explaining how a rip current works and how to free yourself is a treadmill. You walk or run on a treadmill but gain no ground. Similarly, swimming against a rip current takes you nowhere and just burns your energy.
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