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Near the end
of a long, bone-chill-
ing day at the Gulf
Ridge Council's
Aquatics Safety Camp last
April, 42 BSA Lifeguard
candidates were ordered to
prepare for an LBD—a
"Lost Bathers Drill." No
one complained, but the
Scouts and Scouters must
have groaned inwardly at
the thought of returning to
By Dick Pryce
Photographs by Ben Van Hook
Trainees treat a fall "victim'
for head and neck injuries.
the water. Since 8 a.m. they
had been either in the
water, or out (and shiver-
ing) in a stiff north wind.
But they scrambled to line
up in two groups on the
pier at the waterfront of
the Flaming Arrow Scout
Reservation near Lake
Wales, Fla.
"You are about to em-
bark on the most strenu-
ous, nerve-wracking, and
dangerous thing you will do
as lifeguards!" shouted
BSA Aquatics Instructor
Steve Hawkins, the camp's
director and an assistant
Scoutmaster of Troop 686
in Brandon.
Hawkins's staff issued
hasty instructions, and the
first group got into the
water. They began repeat-
ed surface dives, and the
continuous probes to
depths of up to 10 feet soon
forced several gasping
Scouts and Scouters to the
dock. An LBD nearly al-
ways extracts such a toll on
some of the searchers.
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Scouting r<C* May-June 1994
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