Good article on NYC beach issues

[nycwipeout]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/09/nyregion/09lifeguards.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Janet Fash is the chief lifeguard at my beach where most of the drownings have taken place, all because the upper management has been penalising her for being a whistle blower....pretty effed up! She gets 2 lifeguards when she's supposed to have 5!

[SeaCliff]

Crazy.

Not the first I've heard of her story - just crazy. How can they get away with this? Just amazing that management can get away with putting people's lives in jeopardy...

[UNCLE!!]

Management is always putting peoples lives in danger. All the tme, all over the place. Sometimes it's personal or political, but sometimes it is to maintain a design... They don't care so long as they don't have to change their path.

[RayG]

What? !!!

"...And perhaps hundreds of rescues — both heroic and routine — go unnoticed each year, in part because the department does not keep count of the lives saved."

Maybe because those "well trained" LG's barely speak/write any English? They recruit a lot of them from Europe, Russia or something, right?

How can you not keep track of that? A few years ago, I helped a young kid out of a rip out at Central. LG's weren't on duty just yet, and when they did come on, I went over and pointed out the fact that there was a rip in that spot and to keep an eye on it, and that I already helped someone out. He wanted me to take him to the kid and help with a report on it. I brought him over the the family but they wanted to keep it low profile so it went as an anonymous type of thing. They had to do paperwork and they weren't even involved!

[Dual Psychlonic Action]

Yeah years ago I saved a very small kid who was completely submerged & got him out of the water cuaghing & gagging. the Lifeguards just sat there looking at him. They werent even going to do anything untill I yeled dont just stand there, wheres his parrents, maybe check to see if he'a ok, call someone. The LG just said "where is your parents" but the boy just cried. It happened in plain site. There wasnt even a report. Im nt surprised.