03/10/04 - Members of North Sea Volunteer Lifeguards welcomed shoppers to Iceland's new store in Whitley Bay's Park View Shopping Centre as part of a charity bag pack to help raise funds for the club. A life-size cardboard cut out of one of NSVL's lifeguards carrying Iceland bags full of food had taken pride of place at the entrance to the store in the previous week as part of a competition for customers to guess the amount of savings made in the carrier bags. The winner of the competition was invited to the store to collect their prize, while Rookie Lifesavers from the club helped pack bags and raise funds from generous customers. Iceland also made a generous donation of £150 to NSVL for participating. Thanks go to all the Rookies who took part and to all the Iceland customers who supported us. |
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North Tyneside's beaches were given a heart defibrillator for the 2002 summer season and it was the job of NSVL's AED (Automated External Defibrillation) Trainers to provide the 30 lifeguards with the initial and ongoing training in this sophisticated piece of lifesaving equipment.
The defibrillators, which are used to shock the heart of a patient who has had a cardiac arrest, have previously only been carried by paramedics and specially trained first-responder units. Beach lifeguards are already trained to a high standard in CPR, but without early heart defibrillation within 8 minutes the chances of survival for a heart attack patient are small. Having a defibrillator on the beaches could save vital minutes and mean the difference between life and death.
On the back of the summer season, NSVL got funding from Glaxo to purchase its own AED training unit and Oxygen kit which means that all new lifeguards can be trained in this lifesaver...and get to shout STAND CLEAR!
The photos show Whitley Bay's Senior Lifeguards and NSVL members Lisa Gravell and Geoff Wade in training and were published in the Whitley Bay News Guardian.
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