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Surf Life Saving NSW has welcomed two new Directors, including a new President, and the re-election of a third Director on 6 May 2023.
The 2022-23 Surf Life Saving season will go down as one of the most challenging on record for volunteer surf lifesavers and their Australian Lifeguard Service counterparts in NSW, who were responsible for more than 4,600 rescues along our coastline.
As flags went down across NSW beaches this week, marking the end of the patrolling season, the final days held perhaps a little more meaning at Cooks Hill SLSC in the Hunter after the announcement that the revered ‘Patrol 3’ would be ‘retiring’ from active duty.
A specially designed pilot beach safety program has been successfully delivered at Coogee SLSC, as lifesavers across NSW continue to explore methods to better educate and empower communities to feel safe when visiting the coastline.
Kaylah Broadhead of Nobbys SLSC and Calum Reiter of Coogee SLSC have been named the Ingenia Holiday Parks Junior Lifesavers of the Year after three days of team building and leadership development on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
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.
