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[quote=Anonymous]I spent a long time lifeguarding at the beach and usually people fell in one of three categories.  The first are the toe or knee dippers.  They enjoy the fun of being on the beach spending time with their friends and families but only step foot in the water to cool off.  The second, and most popular category I saw were the wave jumpers.  These folks would hang out in about waist to chest deep water jumping over or sometimes diving under the incoming waves but generally had two feet on the bottom.  The third group which was very small compared to the others were the ones who looked like they were trying to swim to England.  I cannot tell you how many times one or two confident swimmers would do this and their weaker peers would attempt to follow and end up needing to get rescued.  Honestly though, it was usually the wave jumpers in wait to chest deep water that got pulled into rip currents and needed rescuing most often.

We typically didn't have the shark worries on the MD/DE beaches.  My rescues were almost always related to rip currents or spinal injuries from going over the falls of a wave or diving into extremely shallow water.[/quote]

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