. >> reporter: captain jeff giles says there are fewer full-time guards this year, due in part to fewerlicants. how does that weigh on your shoulders with the responsibility that you have? >> a lot of the staff will be returning back to college, back to school. so it does worry me that we might not have the amount of personnel that we need coming into the end of august. always a concern. >> reporter: just a block in from the beach, in one of the busiest parts of the boardwalk, sits dolles candy land. it's been in tom's family almost 100 years. the third generation maker of sweets heads to his shop at 5:30 in the morning to start pulling that famous saltwater taffy. he used to employ 25 to 30 people. now he makes it alone. are your hours different? >> yeah, much different than they used to be. usually 12 to 15 hours a day. seven days a week. i used to work maybe somewhere between 9 and 11. i've increased the hours quite a bit. we've got to make the business run, okay? simple as that. >> reporter: tom depends on his family to help run the family business. have my sister-in-law, have my -