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A devastating drowning rate nearly 20% higher than the entirety of NSW, on a patch of coastline shorter than Mona Vale to Manly, is behind a partnership between Surf Life Saving NSW and India – focussed on increased awareness of safe swimming practices.
Surf Life Saving NSW is warning that hazardous weather conditions, with strong winds and large southerly swell presents a real danger along with coast this long weekend, in particular for rock fishers.
Locals and holiday makers at one of the state’s very popular coastal locations, Kingscliff in the Tweed, will be able to swim a little safer with new lifesaving technology installed for use in emergencies, unveiled on Tuesday 3 May by the NSW Minister for Emergency Services, Steph Cooke and Parliamentary Secretary for Police and Emergency Services and Member for Tweed, Geoff Provest.
A new environmental program giving Surf Life Saving clubs across NSW the unique opportunity to get on the front foot in the fight against litter and plastic pollution has launched state-wide, following an extensive trial period on the South Coast.
Surf Lifesavers are urging people to take care around water this Anzac Day weekend after the sad death of a fisherman swept from rocks at an unpatrolled beach south of Forster on Friday.
Jayden Matthews of Lennox Head Alstonville SLSC and Briella Gyler-Dial of Caves Beach SLSC have been announced as the Ingenia Holiday Parks Junior Lifesavers of the Year after three days of team building and leadership development on Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
Surf and swell conditions are set to be hazardous over the coming days, with Surf Life Saving NSW issuing a particular warning to those intending to go rockfishing, boating or swimming.
Weeks of heavy rain on the Tweed River did little to wash away the community spirit, with the four Surf Life Saving Clubs in the area combining to bring relief to affected families – most recently, lending their resources to a devastated school in need of transporting its students.
When the callout came on Monday 28 February for volunteers and with flood waters rising around the state, more than 500 Surf Lifesavers put up their hands to help. To date, more than 700 volunteers have been involved in one of the state’s biggest natural disasters.
