Junior Lifeguards
Junior Lifeguards is a program for youths 11 – 17 sponsored by the City and County of Honolulu to promote ocean safety and awareness.
About the Junior Lifeguards Program
Honolulu Ocean Safety’s Junior Lifeguards Program for 2024 has completed. Mahalo for the overwhelmingly large amount of participation. We are working to improve on this year’s program for 2025 so that we can accommodate even more keiki! If you have any suggestions or comments, please send an email to juniorlifeguards@honolulu.gov. Thank you so much for your interest and support of our program and we cannot wait for next summer! Below you can see information pertaining to last summer’s program.
As a reminder:
The program is open to those keiki ages 11-17.
The safety of your keiki is our primary concern, but we also want to impart some practical life-saving techniques that might help them or anyone nearby. Just make sure they come ready to learn and ready to have fun!
Honolulu Ocean Safety partners with a number of community supporters and sponsors for this unique offering, and instruction is conducted by current city Lifeguards — among the very best watermen and waterwomen in the world.
Keiki may sign up only for one of the 1-week sessions, so that we can reach as many youth as we can this summer. The 1-week clinics run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Monday through Friday. Check back on May 1 for sign ups. You will be notified via a separate email at the end of the registration period with information on your selected session.
- Mākaha (June 3-7, 2024)
- Pōkaʻī Bay (June 10-14, 2024)
- Nānākuli (June 17-21, 2024)
- Ala Moana (June 24-28, 2024)
- Kailua (July 8-12, 2024)
- Waimānalo (July 15-19, 2024)
- Kokololio (July 22-26, 2024)
There will be an island-wide championship Saturday, July 27, 2024 at Mākaha, and then a state championship planned for August 9, 2024 at Hapuna Beach Park on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.
For City & County of Honolulu Junior Lifeguard questions, please contact juniorlifeguards@honolulu.gov, we will do our best to respond to your message in a timely manner, but please keep in mind that we have close to a 1,000 entries and emails to go through.
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