Hi John:
Dr. Monty Downs Reports:
Some great rescue tube news. About a month ago I was on the North Shore with a couple of set-ups and I asked the Haena Lifeguard where to put 'em. He told me about a place I never would have thought of, namely a lagoon with a rip in front of the Hanalei Colony Resort. So up it went.
On Saturday I was out there again, this time with a Hanalei Rotarian as my helper. Put up 4 more, filling in some soft spots. Zero vandalism. That same lifeguard reported that a week or so ago there was a 911 call for a swimmer in distress at the Hanalei Colony Resort. He got there and found that someone had grabbed the tube and both people were hanging onto it when he arrived and he pulled them to shore.
The Rotarian (George Corrigan) was pretty impressed by all this, and today he called to say that he's successfully lined up $5,000 from a North Shore family's trust! That's a lot of rescue tubes -- and you can start looking at ways to draw up invoices for Beach Guardians. George got talking about how this rescue tube concept could really eventually spread (via Rotarians) across the U.S., even in states with lakefronts or other public swimming holes.
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