Mission Beach USA is a reality television series produced for RTÃÂ Television by Rival Media for RTÃÂ's youth strand TRTÃÂ which aired on RTÃÂ Two. Rival Media had previously produced a series of the same name, for the BBC Switch format, which aired in 2008.
In the RTÃÂ series, eight Irish teens, reportedly selected from several thousand appliants, head for Fort Lauderdale in the United States to train as lifeguards. Over the course of 3 weeks they join a group of other teens who are training at the Fort Lauderdale Junior Lifeguard Programme.
A second series was commissioned by RTÃÂ and was scheduled to film, with 8 new participants, in Fort Lauderdale during mid-2011. Series two was broadcast on RTÃÂ 2 later in 2011.