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Surf Life Saving NSW will have better emergency communications and coordination capability, after the NSW Minister for Police and Emergency Services David Elliott officially opened the new State Operations Centre in Sydney today.
Surf Lifesavers and lifeguards have closed beaches in the Port Macquarie area after a woman in her mid thirties was attacked by a shark at 9.30am this morning.
At approximately 12:40pm today, a 44-year-old male surfer was pulled from the water and given CPR by off-duty surf lifesavers after getting into trouble in large swell at Collaroy Beach, Sydney.
An emergency incident response over the Queen’s Birthday long weekend in June was the largest co-ordinated and resourced search and rescue operation in the history of Surf Life Saving Illawarra. The combined response from multiple clubs in the Illawarra branch, which saw over 75 Surf Life Saving personnel working together over a two-day period, has won the Surf Life Saving NSW Rescue of the Month Award for June 2020.
With hazardous weather conditions forecast to continue to impact much of the NSW coastline this weekend, surf lifesavers are urging the public to exercise caution if visiting the coastline.
An off-duty surf lifesaver, who was hailed as a hero after saving the life of a 16-year-old boy at Coledale Beach, Illawarra, in May, has won the SLSNSW Rescue of the Month Award.
With five coastal drownings in five days and a significant increase in boating fatalities, surf lifesavers are pleading with the public to always wear a lifejacket when boating after the worst start to a season on record.
Hazardous weather conditions are forecast for the NSW coastline from today, Monday 13 July, through much of this week.
Despite the NSW bushfire crisis reducing summer beach attendance and the COVID-19 pandemic bringing an early end to the 2019/20 patrol season, there were a higher than average number of coastal drownings during one of the most unusual patrol seasons on record.
