A weekly feature from Ocean City Beach Patrol historian Fred Miller:
Ocean City lifeguards (from left) George Becker, Al Reichenbach and T. John Carey won the surfboard rescue event at the National Lifeguard Championships held on the South Carolina Avenue beach in Atlantic City 78 years ago on August 26, 1936,
The 35
th annual T. John Carey Masters Ocean Swim will be held
Saturday, July 19 at 10 a.m. Registration will begin at
8 a.m. at the 34
th Street OCBP headquarters. Anyone can enter the one-mile ocean swim. The age groups go from 14-and-under to 75-and-over.
Ocean City lifeguard Anthony Czar won this event last summer.
This summer, the National Lifeguard Championships will be held in Virginia Beach on
August 7 to 9. Ocean City lifeguards will be there.
