Lifeguard memorial in San Diego

Ocean Beach gets $20,000 more for lifeguard memorial

Sculptor was raised in OB, mentored by lifeguards

By David Batterson

The San Diego City Council on April 16 unanimously approved funding “not to exceed $20,000” to help pay for a bronze lifeguard statue with a concrete foundation and an adjacent three-foot-square bronze plaque. The two bronzes will be installed on a grassy area next to the Ocean Beach lifeguard station, at 1950 Abbott Street.

The statue (not modeled after anyone in particular) and plaque honor San Diego lifeguards and memorialize 13 soldiers from Camp Kearny who drowned in 1918. The tragedy led to…click here for more.