00:00My name's Carl Amos. I'm a lifeguard supervisor here in South Pembrokeshire. I've been with the
00:06RNLI since 2008 when the RNLI first came to Wales. Today is Lifeguard Appreciation Day. This year
00:14we're celebrating 25 years of RNLI lifeguards on our beaches so we're doing a bit of sand art
00:20in celebration of that. Over the years it has changed quite significantly from the equipment
00:27we use on the beaches to our team sizes and the amount of lifeguards you may see on the
00:32beach. Training's evolved quite significantly but there's one thing that really hasn't changed
00:36which is sort of our core purpose which is prevented incidents on our beach keeping people
00:41safe and saving lives on sea. It makes me incredibly proud to play my sort of part within a wider
00:48service and to play my sort of small part in saving so many lives and helping so many people
00:55on our coast. So I've worked across South Pembrokeshire for five years. Now this is my fifth season
01:02working across eight different beaches. I've loved it and I think I'll continue to come
01:06back for maybe a few more seasons. My favourite part about the whole five years I've done here
01:12now is talking to the people that come here and especially when you help someone they tend
01:17to come back year after year and they'll often come up to you and tell you about their story
01:22and it's nice to always see them coming back every year. It's really nice to have this moment
01:2725 years to look back and think of all the different things that we've done and all the families
01:33who have gone home or individuals who have gone home to their families that might not have been
01:38if the service wasn't here and it's such a large number that you don't really think when you finish
01:44your shift at the end of the day even if it was just one person that day that it all
01:47builds up
01:48and to look at that number now it's just a really nice moment to think what we've done as a
01:52service.
Comments