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Surf boat action returns to Sydney’s Northern Beaches tomorrow with the 2018 Best of the Best Interbranch Championships.
For the second time this season lifesavers from Burning Palms SLSC have taken out the Rescue of the Month award after their members went to the assistance of an injured man at the notorious Figure Eight Rock Pools in February.
A man and woman were extremely fortunate to escape without serious injury after getting into difficulty while swimming at Kiola on the state’s Far South Coast overnight.
Swimmers, surfers, and boat users planning a visit to the beach over the next few days are being urged by the lifesaving community to exercise caution with a hazardous surf warning in place along much of the state’s coastline.
The job of a patrolling lifesaver is always varied as you never know what challenges can be thrown up each weekend, but at the core of everything our volunteers do is to help people with one young member recently showing how it’s done.
With more than 2000 Nippers competing at the recent NSW Surf Life Saving Championships at Swansea Belmont SLSC, there was no shortage of stories of great sportsmanship or displays of camaraderie. But perhaps none was more uplifting than seeing young Aden Clarke from North Cronulla SLSC, surrounded and supported by his mates, competing at his first State Champs.
It was a successful trip for a group of dedicated NSW surf lifesavers who have recently returned from a trip across the Tasman as part of the annual Lifesaving Exchange Program where they were put through their paces alongside some of New Zealand’s finest lifeguards.
After impressing at the 2018 Lifesaving Exchange Program over the Australia Day Weekend, young club members Hamish Christie (Long Reef SLSC), and Lewis Warne (Cudgen Headland) were selected to represent NSW at the Annual Lifeguard Exchange in New Zealand earlier this month joining facilitators Nixy Krite and Damien Woods in a unique experience that will improve their skills and knowledge.
The hottest March day on record and a deceptively strong swell combined to create a challenging weekend on the beach for the state’s surf lifesavers all of whom proved once again to be up to the task in extreme conditions.
