One complaint shared by many Hilton Head Island tourists is that the lifeguards maintain a poor alert system for notifying swimmers when numerous stingrays have been sighted within a specific stretch of the shore.
In addition, lifeguards and an observation tower system provided warnings at the resorts and hotels in Penang and Langkawi.
Although he came from modest origins in the outer boroughs of New York — he earned the seed money for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities from working as a lifeguard at Rockaway Beach and installing sprinkler systems — Madoff clothed himself in establishment credentials.
A French company, Poseidon Technologies, sells underwater vision systems for swimming pools that function as lifeguard assistants, issuing alerts when people are drowning, and the system has saved lives in Europe.
"Anybody who enters the water today," a lifeguard, Jeff Morelock, said over a beachside public-address system, "better know what they are doing".
The program, which the COEC believes to be the first in the nation to enlist lifeguard participation in an environmental health public warning system, provides educational materials on ozone, fine particulates, and, as needed, red tide.
Lifeguards at most times, but observe the flag system.
Mr. Madoff founded Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities in 1960 and liked to tell interviewers about earning his initial stake by working as a lifeguard at city beaches and installing underground sprinkler systems.
For added safety, the park uses a flag system to notify swimmers where the lifeguards are stationed (always between the green flags), or whether they are off duty, in which case yellow flags are displayed ("swim at your own risk").
In the future, poison information center and other human health surveillance data as well as real-time monitoring by lifeguards on beaches will be incorporated into the system [ 108].
"A pair of lifeguards in a pair of towers blew police whistles at what seemed to be regular intervals, and abused the swimmers through a public-address system.
