Just in front of him, hanging from the lifeguard stand, an American flag softly flutters.
As the lifeguard in Lowell Park, he was the protector, keeping an eye out for trouble.
Fishermen who ventured into dangerous seas in the Bristol Channel in a dinghy refused help from the lifeguard because they wanted to carry on fishing.
In addition to the lifeguard spot, Kate notes, there is a similar scenario involving a woman saved from a fire who later abandons the fireman for a male astronaut.
The Lifeguard ( Liz W. Garcia): A former valedictorian quits her reporter job in New York and returns to the place she last felt happy: her childhood home in Connecticut.
When an ad like the lifeguard spot airs in a time slot as high profile as the Super Bowl, and when a publication as prominent as WIRED suggests that space travel is for men, it matters.
The northern bottlenose, which was named Gilbert after the RNLI lifeguard who spotted it, had been seen around Bournemouth Pier and in Poole Bay.
Tim Jago, chairman of the Muriwai Lifeguard Service, said a number of beaches near Muriwai reopened Thursday and that Muriwai would open for beach visits Friday and then swimming on Saturday.
The hearing was told lifeguard cover had stopped the previous day.
Meanwhile, the 10 RNLI lifeguard units, based on beaches in County Down and along the Causeway coast, responded to 158 incidents and assisted 176 people who found themselves in difficulty.
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When swimming, watch out for the red warning flags or ask a lifeguard as the waves can be harsh.
The only survivor was Corporal Thomas Hough, from Dayton, Ohio, who had been a lifeguard before joining the army.
However, about six hours later a lifeguard on the shore saw something bobbing in the water and went out to investigate.
Despite personal loans, an increase in admission prices and losing a lifeguard, the 15 metre pool could be shut by the end of January.
Mr Lawson, who manages RNLI-lifeguarded beaches in Bude in Cornwall and in the Torridge area in Devon, is to carry out the training with Irish lifeguard colleague Tim Doran.
Sunderland and South Tyneside councils handed over lifeguard services to the RNLI in 2009 in a move aimed at saving cash.
Darren Lewis, RNLI lifeguard inspector for the east of England, said that despite last summer's poor weather, the beaches were still busy with day trippers and holiday makers.
No one should swim alone and, if possible, always swim under the watchful eye of a certified lifeguard.
The modular units will also house lifeguard stations and maintenance offices.
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First-time advertiser Axe shows a woman in the ocean getting rescued by a sexy lifeguard, but going for an astronaut instead.
"He tackled me on the beach, " she says of one lifeguard captain.
Earlier this month a woman drowned at Northcott Mouth beach, near Bude, one day after the RNLI stopped its summer "peak season" lifeguard cover for rural beaches.
Back then the swimming pool was also a remarkable sight -- built in the shape of the African continent, with a sunken liquor bar all the way from Somalia to Rwanda, with a lifeguard station high above Liberia, of course.
Lifeguard supervisor Ben Mitchell added: 'The RNLI exists to operate a seamless rescue service from the beach to the open sea.
Its initial successes are in some rather mundane products, including zinc oxide, the goopy white sunblock that looks attractive only on a lifeguard's nose.
Inside the 76-story tower's rippled steel exterior lies a lifeguard-manned swimming pool and sun deck, a boxing studio, a children's library, a grilling terrace with "dining cabanas, " a billiards room, a squash court and a golf simulator, just to name a few.
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