Comprehensive Training Programs
designed to empower individuals with the essential skills and knowledge to respond to emergencies confidently and effectively.
Certified Instructors
Learn from our experienced, American Red Cross-certified instructors ensuring you gain the practical experience needed to save lives in real-world situations
Customizable Training Solutions
Benefit from our ability to adapt and customize courses for diverse audiences and specific industries, ensuring that training materials are relevant, engaging, and effective for every participant.
What We Offer
OUR CLASSES
New Lifeguard Blended Classes
The Lifeguarding course provides participants the knowledge and skills to prevent recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies in both shallow water (less than 7 feet) and deeper water (7 feet or more) and to provide professional-level care for breathing and cardiac emergencies injuries and sudden illnesses until EMS personnel take over. This class is taught in a blended learning format and the assigned online portion(s) (accessed via mobile desktop or tablet) must be completed prior to each instructor-led session. Participants who successfully complete this course receive an American Red Cross certificate for Lifeguarding (including deep water) with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid valid for 2 years.
Lifeguard Recertification
An abbreviated Lifeguarding course that reviews course content in addition to practice and testing of skills and emergency team response. This class is taught in a blended learning format and the assigned online portion(s) (accessed via mobile desktop or tablet) must be completed prior to each instructor-led session. To participate in the recertification course participants must possess a Red Cross certificate for Lifeguarding with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid (current certification or certification expired by no more than 30 days). Students who successfully complete this course will receive a certificate for Lifeguarding with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid valid for 2 years.
Watefront Classes
Teaches lifeguards the skills and knowledge needed to prevent and respond to emergencies in nonsurf open-water areas found at public parks resorts summer camps and campgrounds. Participants must have a current American Red Cross certificate for Lifeguarding (Including Deep Water) with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid to participate in this module. After successful completion of this module participants will receive an American Red Cross certificate for Waterfront Skills which is valid for 2 years and is only valid with a current American Red Cross Lifeguarding (Including Deep Water) with CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and First Aid.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
state-of-the-art training
Connor PLOSKI
Connor Ploski has been a certified American Red Cross Lifeguard since 2014 and an American Red Cross Lifeguard Instructor since 2016. In 2021 he founded Pineapple Grove Training in the attempt to help rehabilitate the national lifeguard shortage. Since opening the business, Connor has also become an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor and Wilderness First Aid Instructor. In 2021 Connor graduated from Widener University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.