This week, acting director of the Honolulu Ocean Safety Department, Kurt Lager, joins host Brandi Higa on the One O‘ahu Podcast talk about the City’s newest department and what this means in terms of resources for our lifeguards (0:55). Then, Lager discusses his priorities for the department and provides an update on the new facilities coming online (3:37). Finally, interested in becoming a City lifeguard? Kurt Lager explains what it takes to patrol some of the most unique shorelines in the world (13:19).