- Aquatics & Waterfront
AccuDock
AccuDock is a U.S. manufacturer of customizable floating docks for camps, parks, and waterfronts, based in Pompano Beach, Florida. Its modular, marine-grade systems can be built to ADA-compliance standards with low-profile designs and anti-slip surfaces for safe swimming and water-sports access. The docks are engineered for durability, easy installation, and eco-friendly materials suited to lakes, rivers, and coastal settings.
- Facilities & Structures
Anchor Industries
Anchor Industries is an American manufacturer of tents, fabric structures, shade solutions, pool covers, and awnings serving recreational, commercial, and event markets. Its frame and pole tents, shade structures, and custom pool covers fit camp dining, event, and waterfront needs. The company emphasizes durable, American-made craftsmanship across its structure lines.
- Aquatics & Waterfront
Commercial Recreation Specialists (CRS)
Commercial Recreation Specialists (CRS) is a recreation products and services company that outfits camp and resort waterfronts with floating inflatables, splashpads, playgrounds, and shade structures, including its exclusive WhoaZones aqua parks. Headquartered in Verona, Wisconsin with sales offices in New Jersey and Minnesota, it provides planning, design, installation, training, and operational support rather than just selling equipment. It is a major dealer of RAVE Sports and Wibit waterfront products.
- Facilities & Equipment
Diamond Waterfronts
Diamond Waterfronts designs and builds waterfront infrastructure for camps and aquatic facilities, including docks, rafts, and related waterfront products and services. The company serves camps that operate lakefront and waterfront programs.
- Aquatics & Waterfront
Ellis & Associates (Jeff Ellis & Associates)
Ellis & Associates is widely described as the world's first aquatic safety and risk-management firm, founded in 1983 and known for its International Lifeguard Training Program used at pools and waterparks worldwide. Its lifeguard certification is one of the handful of programs recognized by U.S. health agencies, alongside services in aquatic facility management (Jeff Ellis Management), swim instruction, and AI-based safety tech (EAISafety). Camp waterfronts and pools use its certification and audit programs to meet safety standards.
- Aquatics & Waterfront
RAVE Sports
RAVE Sports is the originator of the inflatable water trampoline, a product first designed and sold into the summer camp market in 1997 that effectively launched the category. It manufactures commercial-grade water trampolines, water bouncers, floating obstacle systems, and aqua parks used by camps and resorts, sold through dealers like CRS via its commercial division. RAVE is now part of Escalade, Inc.'s portfolio of recreation brands.
- Aquatics & Waterfront
StarGuard Elite
StarGuard Elite (SGE) is an internationally recognized aquatic risk-prevention agency offering lifeguard training, certification, consulting, and unannounced safety audits, used by waterparks, municipalities, cruise lines, and camps. It grew out of the StarGuard lifeguard program created by Starfish Aquatics Institute founder Jill White and became a separately operated entity in 2018. Its audits and design/risk-assessment services help aquatic operations exceed industry safety standards.
- Safety & Security
WAVE Drowning Detection Systems
WAVE Drowning Detection Systems makes wireless, wearable drowning-detection technology for pools and waterfronts. Its system alerts lifeguards in real time when a swimmer stays submerged beyond a set time, and is used by camps, YMCAs, Boys & Girls Clubs, schools, and parks-and-recreation aquatics programs. The portable, no-installation system has been studied specifically in children's summer-camp swimming settings.
- Aquatics & Waterfront
Wibit Sports
Wibit Sports is a German manufacturer of modular inflatable floating waterparks installed in more than 100 countries, with 30+ years in commercial-grade aqua parks. Its TUV-certified, UV-resistant modules connect into customizable obstacle-course systems for lakes, beaches, and pools used by camps, resorts, and attractions. In the U.S. its open-water inflatables are sold through an exclusive distributor, Commercial Recreation Specialists.
Camp lifeguard training and certification
Lifeguard training is a separate purchase from the docks, inflatables and equipment above. It covers training and certifying the staff who guard a camp's waterfront or pool, auditing them during the season, and equipment that watches the water alongside them. These companies do that work.
Ellis & Associates (Jeff Ellis & Associates) — Ellis & Associates is widely described as the world's first aquatic safety and risk-management firm, founded in 1983 and known for its International Lifeguard Training Program used at pools and waterparks worldwide.
StarGuard Elite — StarGuard Elite (SGE) is an internationally recognized aquatic risk-prevention agency offering lifeguard training, certification, consulting, and unannounced safety audits, used by waterparks, municipalities, cruise lines, and camps.
WAVE Drowning Detection Systems — WAVE Drowning Detection Systems makes wireless, wearable drowning-detection technology for pools and waterfronts.
Questions camps ask about this category
- What should a camp look for?
- Ask how the work is scoped and what a normal year with them looks like: who does the setup, what happens in your busiest fortnight, what the exit looks like if you leave, and what the price does when your numbers change. Ask two or three companies the same questions and compare the answers rather than the brochures. We don't nominate a best one, here or anywhere.
Nothing above compares these companies to each other, because a directory entry is not a basis for that comparison. What it is good for is knowing who exists. Each company's listing shows who it says it works with, in its own words, and any questions it has answered in public. Start there, then ask the two or three of them the questions your own year actually turns on.
Last updated 11 October 2026. Companies are listed alphabetically; the order carries no meaning.