Archive for November, 2010

Brotherhood Transcends Borders

Each year we have the incredible opportunity of meeting amazing people. This video was of Ernesto who was a sixteen year old volunteer from a town called San Juan. Each year, Ernesto volunteers during the busy week of Semana Santa with the countries Red Cross to lend his support to helping save lives. Here Olin [...]

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Donating Swim Fins to the Red Cross

Taken from ISLA Each year we gather as many supplies as we can carry on our backs, so that we can donate the valuable equipment to areas in desperate need. This year the Huntington City Beach lifeguards were great with donating old and unused swim fins, and we were able to get them directly to [...]

Volunteering with the ISLA

Taken from ISLA Each year we look for volunteers to send to the beaches we manage. Volunteers must be at least American Red Cross First Responders or Emergency Medical Technicians, and serve as lifeguards in the United States. As we grow we want to continue to expand the range of volunteers we bring to include [...]

About ISLA

Taken from ISLA. ISLA started was started in 2008 by four Huntington Beach Lifeguards and Junior Lifeguard Instructors. The idea started as a realization that the four guards wanted to continue to contribute in some way to lifeguarding, even after they had moved on from working every summer at the beach. The idea continued to [...]

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Lifeguarding Techniques

Taken from ISLAsurf.org: – Our olympic swimmer rKelly looks great in a speedo. matt henry sutures at 2am things i dont like to swim with. Ayudan una NiƱa… Last Spring, seven dear friends and myself flew down to Nicaragua to volunteer ourselves with the Nicaraguan Red Cross. The experience proved to be life changing as [...]