What We Do in Summer

 Our main activity is watching and rescue on the beach. I do this activity in Otake as Otake Surf Life Saving Club Member. When we rescue someone in surf we need to have license of lifesaver. I will talk about these licenses next next week. Then I will write about what we do in summer.

Early Morning Training
 Our patrol is one day job from 8 to 16. Maybe we rescue at 8... For that we get up at 5, and swim on the sea and ready for one day patrol. Training example menu is "run swim run." In this practice we run 200m and 400m swim and 200m run. It is so hard task. But for someone's life we do our best in the early morning training. And we also check the sea. Then we inform bather about   beach or sea condition.

Beach Patrol
 During patrol we usually on the tower to look around the beach.

When we are on the tower, we can see all around the beach, but we cannot see in detail. Therefore, we walk along the sea to check whether there is patients or not.

Board Patrol
 Above way of patrol is done on the beach. We also patrol with rescue board. When rip current is occurred bathers may not notice it and they may become patients. This is a serious situation. Lifesaver who patrol on the beach take a few times to rescue, then lifesaver patrol in the sea with rescue board.