lifesaving

Norman, a blind Labrador retriever, saves a girl from drowning in the ocean.

How do the emergency services in different countries of the world rescue people? How do they travel and what equipment do they use? This book looks at rescues made at sea around the world, including the work of lifeguards on beaches and military coast guards.

After the Coasties close the Madaket Station on Nantucket Island, Millie appoints herself warden, rescue squad, and sentry providing lifesaving services along the coast.

Advice for teens in handling medical emergencies, such as broken bones, accident injuries, bites, poison, exposure, drownings, and heart attacks.

Advice for teens in handling medical emergencies, such as broken bones, accident injuries, bites, poison, exposure, drownings, and heart attacks.

Engaging images accompany information about Coast Guard rescue swimmers.

Text and photographs introduce readers to different types of rescues at sea, describing the necessary skills required by rescue crews.

A dog spends his life at the London docks rescuing people from drowning.

A brother and sister risk their lives and that of an old cart horse while trying to rescue victims of a plane crash before the tide comes in.