I passed my Red Cross lifeguard certification test today! I've been wanting to do this ever since I was 16, and now I'm a real lifeguard! The test was a little more challenging that I thought. We first had a written test on lifeguarding skills, and some of the questions had a couple answers that both looked right. For the water practical portion, we first did shallow water backboarding with a spinal injury victim, followed by an active drowning victim rescue with a stride jump. Finally, we did a passive submerged victim rescue and extracted from the pool, followed by three minutes of CPR on a dummy.