When Fun Collides With Water
Cabo San Lucas, at the southern tip of the Baja peninsula, has long been a fun site for the Margarita crowd. It's also a ripe destination for corporate meetings, with new construction booming up the coast to San Jose del Cabo and beyond. Cabo conference promoters cite the upscale amenities, rugged sea cliffs and crashing waves, but the dangerous riptides seem never to make a headline. Los Cabos' top beachside resorts are set in rugged nature, but few beaches in Los Cabos are safe to swim all the time. Before the fun began on a recent trip here, Venture Up staff learned first-off to take the tide seriously.
The Venture Up family flew down to Baja to produce a video promoting team building activities in Los Cabos. The "Fun in Cabo" video was secondary to our promo piece, and taken long after the beach heroes below faced a life-or-death experience. Sitting under a beachside palapa, two men galloped up on horseback, frantically yelling for a doctor. Mason and Miles Lengyel, below, raced to the shoreline to find a man on the beach with no pulse; his family frantically trying to perform CPR. (See the full story on our website, called Code Red). The good news is the story had a happy ending and a new safety-minded event was born. |
| Miles Lengyel and Mason Lengyel, Venture Up program managers, after helping to save a man with no pulse, using only CPR at San Jose del Cabo, Mexico. |
The Code Red Emergency Response team building program can be a life-saving experience. Designed to promote safety at work, at home, or in Mexico, teams face a simulated real-life experience similar to those many of us will face at some time in our lives. During the program, teams learn CPR, build trust in one another and have the confidence to help save a life at work, home, or a Mexico beach that may lack essential emergency gear.
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Hyatt Ziva is a favorite venue for Venture Up clients. Located in historic San Jose del Cabo, this area is less hectic than Cabo San Lucas. A turtle nesting ground is just north of the beach and leads to a quiet harbor, Puerto del Cabo, with uncrowded water fun, including Dolphin Discovery . conservation center and Hydro Flyboarding. Downtown San Jose is known for its historic arts district, with high end art by world renowned artists.
Flyboard San Jose del Cabo
A 2-man team is all that's required for water flight in San Jose del Cabo. Kristian Sandoval, Venture Up's program director for Latin regions, and a former Hewlett Packard executive for Latin America, is also a partner in Hydro Flyboard, based in San Jose del Cabo, home of the Dolphin Discovery conservation center.
