Treasure Coast Junior Lifeguards

Treasure Coast Junior Lifeguards includes activities such as surfing, board surfing, body surfing, prone paddling boarding, paddling rescue boards, paddling boarding, and challenging beach games. Participants also take part in “FUN DAY” Friday activities, which include getting “TUBED” behind a Wave Runner, chilling with “BOB,” and getting launched. The program includes learning lifeguard skills and first-aid skills, along with daily educational progression on how waves are created, how they travel, and how they react to local topography causing breaking waves and rip currents, as well as instruction on how to read waves and the surf line up.

• Ages: 9–17 years old
• Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00am–3:00pm

Treasure Coast Junior Lifeguards is offered as a junior lifeguard summer camp for youths 9–17 and as surf lifesaving camps. The program includes comprehensive water safety education with activities such as surfing, prone paddling boarding, and challenging beach games, and includes training to act as a first responder to aid someone in danger. Participants learn advanced rescue techniques and life-saving procedures at the surf lifesaving camps, with an emphasis on prevention by teaching risk identification and assessment in the marine environment. The sports recreation and education camp services Jensen Beach, Stuart, Port St. Lucie, Fort Peirce, and Vero at Martin County’s Jensen Public Beach, and Hobe Sound, Tequesta, Jupiter, Juno, North Palm, West Palm and Palm Beach Gardens at Palm Beach County’s Carlin Park.

Marine First Responders is staffed by highly trained marine safety personnel and is a licensed training provider for the American Red Cross (ARC). Marine First Responders follows and instructs from the ocean surf lifesaving guidelines of the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA) and the American Red Cross (ARC). According to its mission statement, Marine First Responders respects the marine environment and its community and is dedicated to minimizing risk and maximizing safety in the water through water safety education by offering the Treasure Coast Junior Lifeguard Summer Camps and surf lifesaving competition events. The mission statement also states that the company’s ambition is to create a position of increased water safety by offering junior lifeguard programs in the communities of the Treasure Coast in Martin County, St. Lucie County, and Palm Beach County, and that its goal is to build a community of skilled, water-oriented individuals who are actively alert, helpful, and cooperative in the marine environment at its surf lifesaving camps.

Last updated February 16, 2026.