Setting Out for the water Hike
Water Front Protection for Summer Camps
By
Captain Fred. C. Mills,
Red Cross Life Saving Corps,
Atlantic Division.
Every camp that is situated on water or has a near-by bathing place, should organize its water front protection system before the camp opens.
Choice of Bathing Place
The swimming place should be so chosen as to combine, if possible, deep water swimming for the experienced swimmers and a shallow bathing place for beginners. The non-swimmers' pool should never be over four and one-half feet deep at its deepest point.
Equipment
For Beginners. The non-swimmers' pool should be enclosed on three sides by life lines, (1" to 1½" manila rope, depending on weather conditions), buoyed up every fifteen feet by cork floats or balsa wood buoys, painted white and made fast at the corners to piles driven into the sand, or to buoys moored with rocks or cement moorings. No beginners should be allowed to go beyond these lines.