Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • Boundegar

    I think this was our grandparents’ idea of pornography.

  • http://twitter.com/Brainspore Tim Harrington

    So basically “Baywatch.”

  • jimh

    War-Era Baywatch.
    In fact, while watching I imagined some Baywatch footage converted to BW, digitally aged, and cut to this VO!

  • millie fink

    Those men lined up right quick for their turn at the Prone Pressure Method. 

  • PaulDavisTheFirst

    “many hours [ ... ] to start the victum breathing again” … say what?

  • millie fink

    I had no idea lifeguard training was that rigorous. I wonder if it still is.

    • Rich Keller

      From what I remember when I was a kid, the only real dangers the guards at the public pool faced were sunburn and laryngeal polyps from all the yelling. And for some reason, they all called the little boys “Butch.” It has to be tougher working at the sea or the beach of a lake.

      • DisGuest

         Butch? I’ve never heard anyone use this term before. What time period was it in and where in the country?

  • Oliver Crosby

    I have to say, I took my lifeguard training about 6 years ago, and this video appears to be significantly more thorough and challenging then what I underwent. Now that I employ lifeguards, I’m often careful about who I pick. There were a lot of people who got certified alongside me who I wouldn’t trust to save a life.

    I wouldn’t hesitate to hire any of the women… Except that they’re all really really old now.

  • JeffreyMartin360Cities

    I guess that 50 years before this, the great innovation was the advent of Irish lifeguards, who previously in the United States were not considered fully human either.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Wm-Kiernan/100000437755873 Wm Kiernan

    Wow, after the rescue, her hair dried really quick!

  • jayson

    Was this filmed at a “whites-only” beach? 
    Good Lord.

  • pmocek

    The video is already hosted by Internet Archive.  Why send people to view it with YouTube’s advertising?

    http://archive.org/embed/LadyLifeguar