A 34 year-old rock fisherman narrowly escaped drowning after being washed into the sea at Pretty Point near Batemans Bay on Sunday 12 June, thanks to the skills of a highly experienced Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) crew.
A 34 year-old rock fisherman narrowly escaped drowning after being washed into the sea at Pretty Point near Batemans Bay on Sunday 12 June, thanks to the skills of a highly experienced Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) crew.
A Surf Life Saving NSW Emergency Rescue Beacon (ERB) was successful in alerting first responders to a man washed from rocks at Fingal Head on the Far North Coast this morning. The fisherman was picked up in challenging surf conditions near the rocks at Dreamtime Beach by Australian Lifeguard Service lifeguards aboard a jetski.
The search for a male washed off the rocks at the treacherous Hill 60 in Port Kembla yesterday has continued this morning with Surf Life Saving assets deployed from 8am in the Illawarra.
Far South Coast Duty Officer Cheryl McCarthy knows that the commendable efforts of Batemans Bay SLSC and Broulee Surfers SLSC patrolling members ensured an unfortunate incident at Surf Beach was not far worse – she sees it every week in her role at Branch level.
Nine specialists in Flood Water Rescue from Surf Life Saving Tasmania arrived in northern NSW last night and have already performed their first rescue – a man and his dog stranded on the back of a ute in floodwaters at Woodburn.
Volunteer Duty Officers, jetski operators and UAV pilots have assisted Police in the aftermath of the first fatal shark incident in Sydney in almost 60 years.
A man has been extricated from a rocky outcrop off the headland at Trial Bay on the state’s Mid North Coast after Surf Life Saving assets from the closest club, South West Rocks SLSC, were called to a man in distress.
Two teenagers have been rescued from the Warriewood blowhole by a team of lifesavers in an effort the on-scene Duty Officer has described as ‘what surf lifesaving is all about’.
Just a handful of patrols into her lifesaving journey, Iluka SLSC volunteer and Australian Lifeguard Service employee Lillian Young may have already completed her most daring and remarkable rescue – saving a kangaroo from choppy surf on New Year’s Eve.