Available Courses

LIFEGUARD COURSE

• Purpose: To provide entry-level lifeguard participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies and to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illnesses until emergency medical services personnel take over.
• Duration: 30 hours (Approximately 16-18 hours in the classroom and 10-12 hours in the pool.)
• Certifications: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer, valid for 2 years.
• Bonus gifts: hip pack, adult and infant resuscitation masks, whistle, and floating key chain.
• Lifeguard course fact sheet – link
• There are prerequisites for this course. https://www.baltimorelifeguardschool.com/about/

WATERFRONT ADD-ON TO THE LIFEGUARD COURSE

• Purpose: To give lifeguards the knowledge and skills to guard at a lake or other non-surf open water area.
• Duration: 5 hours
• Certification: Waterfront lifeguarding, valid 2 years.
• Additional Prerequisites
  • Regular lifeguard certification is required (LGT).
  • Instead of swimming 300 yards, you need to swim 550 yards continuously.
  • Swim 5 yards retrieve 3 dive rings from the bottom in one breath, resurface and swim back 5 yards.

Course dates Sunday May 14th 2023. 2-4pm and Monday May 29th 2-4pm

LAY RESPONDER CPR

• Purpose: The American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED program helps participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies. The courses in this program teach the knowledge and skills needed to give immediate care to an injured or ill person and to decide whether advanced medical care is needed.
• Duration: 5 hours.
• Certification: Adult/Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. There is an adult only or pediatric only certificate option.
• Bonus gift: key chain face shield.
• First Aid/CPR/AED fact sheet – link

The date of this course is approximate. The course is planned to start some time in May. Please contact us for details.

LIFEGUARD RE-CERTIFICATION

• Purpose: To provide lifeguards with training to keep their certification current.
• Duration: 9 hours.
• Certification: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Review, valid for 2 years.
• Prerequisite: Current LGT certification/LGT certification that expired less than 30 days ago

LIFEGUARD RE-CERTIFICATION

• Purpose: To provide lifeguards with training to keep their certification current.
• Duration: 9 hours.
• Certification: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Review, valid for 2 years.
• Prerequisite: Current LGT certification/LGT certification that expired less than 30 days ago

Purpose: The purpose of the American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers program is to train professional-level rescuers to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants until more advanced medical personnel take over.

• Duration: 5 hours for the full course OR 2 hours for the Challenge/Review course.
• Certification: CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Healthcare Providers, valid for 2 years.
• Bonus Gift: Adult/Child and Infant CPR mask.
• CPR for the Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider fact sheet – link

The date of this course is approximate. The course is planned to start some time in June. Please contact us for details.

LIFEGUARD RE-CERTIFICATION

• Purpose: To provide lifeguards with training to keep their certification current.
• Duration: 9 hours.
• Certification: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Review, valid for 2 years.
• Prerequisite: Current LGT certification/LGT certification that expired less than 30 days ago

Part of the Kesser Torah course. Please call before signing up for specific times and dates.

Purpose: To give lifeguards the knowledge and skills to guard at a lake or other non-surf open water area.

• Duration: 5 hours
• Certification: Waterfront lifeguarding, valid 2 years.
• Additional Prerequisites
  • Regular lifeguard certification is required (LGT).
  • Instead of swimming 300 yards, you need to swim 550 yards continuously.
  • Swim 5 yards retrieve 3 dive rings from the bottom in one breath, resurface and swim back 5 yards.

This is a co-ed waterfront add-on that will run on the Kemp Mill lifeguard course schedule. Please call for the start date if you choose it as a stand alone course.

Purpose: To give lifeguards the knowledge and skills to guard at a lake or other non-surf open water area.

• Duration: 5 hours
• Certification: Waterfront lifeguarding, valid 2 years.
• Additional Prerequisites
  • Regular lifeguard certification is required (LGT).
  • Instead of swimming 300 yards, you need to swim 550 yards continuously.
  • Swim 5 yards retrieve 3 dive rings from the bottom in one breath, resurface and swim back 5 yards.

This is a co-ed lifeguard course for Kemp Mill swim team.

The listed start date is the first scheduled date of the in water skills sessions. The online course should be completed prior to this date.

Purpose: To provide entry-level lifeguard participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies and to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illnesses until emergency medical services personnel take over.

• Duration: 30 hours (Approximately 16-18 hours in the classroom and 10-12 hours in the pool.)
• Certifications: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer, valid for 2 years.
• Bonus gifts: hip pack, adult and infant resuscitation masks, whistle, and floating key chain.
• Lifeguard course fact sheet – link
• Prerequisites for the course:
  • Must be 15 years old by the last day of the class, ID required.
  • Must be able to swim 300 yards continuously, while demonstrating breathing control and rhythmic breathing. For this requirement you may use the following 2 strokes, front crawl and breaststroke. Goggles are allowed for this prerequisite only: they are not allowed for the remainder of the course.
  • Tread for 2 minutes using only your feet.
  • Complete the following timed event in 1 minute and 40 seconds.  A. Enter the water and swim 20 yards.  B. Surface dive and retrieve a 10 lb brick from the bottom of the pool and bring it to the surface.  C. Swim 20 yards back to the starting point with both hands holding the brick.  D. Remove brick from water.  E. Exit the water without the use of the ladder or steps. The clock stops when you get out of the water.