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Lifesaving at the 2009 World Games

The life saving competition at the World Games 2009 took place from July 23 to July 25, at the Kaohsiung Swimming Pool and Sizihwan Bay in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.


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Francis Hopkinson Smith

Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government, including the stone ice-breaker at Bridgeport, Connecticut, the jetties at the mouth of the Connecticut River, the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, the Race Rock Lighthouse (southwest of Fishers Island, New York) and many life-saving stations.

General Service Training School

Recruits are given instruction in military history, customs and courtesies, drill, rifle shooting and maintenance, life saving, military administrative procedures, orienteering and map reading, NBC warfare, military rank structures, insignia recognition, interior economy, and ten days in the field at RNZAF Dip Flat in which the CRTS training is put to the test.

Homer Hartage

Chia Seed Flour offers life saving alternative for 3 million Americans with Coeliac disease, individuals with celiac disease cannot tolerate gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley.

Hong Kong St. John Ambulance

Cadets will participate in Leadership Training Programmes and receive training in other proficiency subjects such as Fire Fighting, Canoeing, Camping, Life Saving, Rock Climbing, Map Reading, Cookery, etc.

Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station

The Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station was originally built in November 1878 on the north side of the entrance to Humboldt Bay in northern California, United States near Eureka, adjacent to the site of the first Humboldt Harbor Light (1856–1892).

Leo Melamed

In 1940, the Japanese consul general to Lithuania, Chiune Sugihara, issued his family a life-saving transit visa, and they made the long trek across Siberia to safe haven in Japan.

Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council

The poison call center is staffed with poison experts including – physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and other specially trained in toxicology – provide life-saving services to Illinois residents and health care professionals.

Nahant Life-Saving Station

The station, which consists of a residence and an equipment building, was established in 1900 by the United States Life-Saving Service before being taken over by the United States Coast Guard in 1915.

North West Air Ambulance

The Paramedics who provide the life saving treatment on board the Air Ambulance are provided on two year secondments by the North West Ambulance Service.

Samuel S. Cox

He was a backer of the Life Saving Service, later merged into the United States Coast Guard.

Y. Pierre Gobin

In addition to the life-saving procedure he performed on Tatum Fisher, Gobin also repaired the brain aneurysm of rock musician Neil Young.