8th ANNUAL BRIGANTINE OPEN WATER SWIM

• The Meet Referee and Brigantine City Beach Patrol (BCBP, in conjunction with the Meet Director, reserve the right to cancel this event if conditions are unsafe. Brigantine EMS and Brigantine City Beach Patrol (BCBP) will provide safety for this event.
• All participants must attend the mandatory pre-race meetings at the below mentioned times.  
• Each athlete will be given a card with their “athlete number” on it. This card is used during the marking process, as well as given to event staff upon the athlete entering the water. This allows the event staff to know which athletes entered the water. 
• Athletes will be within 100 meters of safety personnel while in the water. The final number of athletes that enter the water will be radioed to the Meet Director, Meet Referee, and all event staff. Course marking officials will radio in to all when the last athlete has past them on the course. If any athletes are picked up during the swim their number will be called in to the finish area and support boats. 
• As the athletes finish their event their number will be recorded and they will be photographed/videoed crossing the finish line. The total numbers of athletes will be tallied at the finish line and radioed to all parties. A list of athletes by number will be provided to the Command Center, Emergency Crafts/Boats, and Officials.
• The race will not be swum in water temperatures less than 60.8 F.  

• If   weather conditions during the race are such that the Meet Director, Meet   Referee, Host Team Representative, Head of Beach Patrol/Lifeguards determine that   the event should be abandoned, an air horn will be used to signal   cancellation and each safety boat will be radioed the cancellation decision.   
• Lifeguards, volunteers, and crafts/boats will then round up the swimmers and head them to shore or pick them up and bring them to shore. 
• No course buoys   will be picked up until all athletes have safely reached the shore. 
• In the   pre-race meeting athletes will be instructed to look for the nearest safety personnel when they hear the abandonment signal. 
• The abandonment signal is   five short blasts followed by one prolonged blast of air horns or whistles.   
• This signal will be repeated every minute until the course is cleared of all   athletes.

7 AM - 7:30 AM

• 400M: 7:45 AM
• 2K: 8:15 AM*

* Approximately, the pre-race meeting will begin after the last swimmer from the 400M exists the water. 

• 400M: 8 AM
• 2K: 8:30 AM

• 400M: Immediately following the start of the 2K
• 2K: Immediately following the conclusion of the 2K