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# A snapshot of LA County Lifeguard operations
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/a-snapshot-of-la-county-lifeguard-operations/
- Published: 2006-05-29T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T18:07:02.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Environment, Santa Monica, #archive-import

The basics

• 158 towers

• 106 ocean lifeguard specialists, 34 captains, 16 rescue boat captains, six chiefs, three secretaries, two utility drivers. Staff is 4 percent female.

• 623 recurrent ocean lifeguards, 14 percent of whom are female.

• 56 vehicles

• 72 miles of coastline

• 32 miles of beach

From the record book:

2005 statistics

• 6,258 rescues

• 2 drownings

• 342 resuscitations

• 19,927 medical aids

• 574 boat rescues

• 822 missing persons reunited with family

Most rescues

June 1981: 6,458

Most for a three-day weekend: June 27-29, 1981 — 1,190

Highest for a single day: June 28, 1981 — 1,295

Highest attendance:

1989: 60,259,880 visitors

Total drownings since 1989: 41

17-year average:

9,738 rescues

11,231 medical aids

901 boat rescues

1,539 missing persons

525 resuscitations

2.4 drownings

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 29, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/052906.pdf?ref=smdp.com)