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can be men, women or one man and one woman, which is<br />

generally in most cases the extent of available lifeguards,<br />

where as others use teams of 5, four men and one woman,<br />

such as it the regulation for the Great Titan event.<br />

Which logistically is two and a half times more expensive<br />

that a team of two, another advantage of teams of two is<br />

that it makes the competitors train and learn to be more all<br />

rounded in swimming, rescue board operation and running,<br />

thus they stay more fit.<br />

In reality, it is actually rare that a lifeguard has to make a<br />

rescue or perform CPR, as glamorous as the job appears it<br />

can in fact be boring, so the more opportunities a lifeguard<br />

can have to actually practice real life rescue scenarios the<br />

better they will be prepared to handle a real rescue situation.<br />

Training data from Zambales Lifesaving annual reassessments<br />

show that of lifeguards who have learned CPR, 34% fail on<br />

first attempt after one year, at two years this jumps to 86%<br />

so have competitions increases their expertise, this making<br />

them a more effective lifeguard, it is actually recommended<br />

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