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Surf lifesavers are urging beachgoers to swim between the red and yellow flags for the final two weekends of the patrol season after three drownings in NSW on Easter Sunday capped a horror day for volunteers.
It is with great sadness that we inform members of the passing of a truly significant surf lifesaver, a former President of Surf Life Saving NSW and Avalon Beach SLSC stalwart, Michael Byrnes.
To Olivia Rosewall, her rescue effort at Bronte Beach last month was simply the product of her three years in Surf Life Saving; an unassuming, even unspectacular – save for a few dumping waves – paddle out to a swimmer who had floated a little too far outside the flags. To Isabella Mancera, it was a sequence of actions that meant the world.
50 women are now far more skilled on the water after a successful Australian Lifesaving Boat Emergency Rescue Training (ALBERT) program ran in the Hunter at the weekend.
It may have happened just over two months ago, but 13-year-old Katja Moritz remembers her first rescue very clearly.
In recognition of International Women’s Day on Wednesday 8 March, Bondi SBLSC has once again held its ‘Pink Patrol’ – a celebration of women in Surf Life Saving and a workshop for networking, confidence building and inclusivity.
Having made nearly 3,000 rescues this summer already, NSW volunteer surf lifesavers and lifeguards are urging the public to understand their limitations as a “low intensity heatwave” approaches.
Seven drownings in six days marked a devastating week on our coastline which saw the coastal drowning toll for the summer to date soar to 23.
Volunteer surf lifesavers have helped to avoid 46 near drownings across an intense weekend on the NSW coastline which saw the summer drowning toll rise to 16.
