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Just three weeks after attending a boating fatality at Long Reef, Surf Life Saving Sydney Northern Beaches Duty Officer Doug Lucas urges the public to think about their actions before coming to the coast.
Two volunteer surf lifesavers, who were awarded the prestigious National Rescue of the Month Award for performing back-to-back rescues, have been reunited with the men whose lives they saved.
On Monday 2 December, Prime Minister Scott Morrison presented National Rescue of the Month Awards to NSW volunteer surf lifesavers at a function in Canberra’s Parliament House.
A 61-year-old man is dead after a rogue wave capsized a boat off Long Reef, on Sydney’s Northern Beaches earlier today.
NSW has recorded a 22% spike in coastal drowning deaths over the 2018-19 year with 44 people tragically drowning along the NSW coast.
Two elderly fishermen are lucky to be alive after their 15-foot power boat sank off Bermagui earlier today. Surf lifesavers were part of a multi-agency response to the emergency situation.
Rescue Water Craft (Jetskis) are becoming an increasingly important asset in modern surf lifesaving operations. Their considerable speed and agility in the surf - and the fact they can be crewed by a single driver - makes them ideally suited to coastal emergencies requiring fast responses.
Surf Lifesavers celebrated a milestone anniversary of the Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) on 2 November 2019, 50 years to the day that the first prototype was trialled at Avalon Beach in Sydney in front of a sceptical crowd of onlookers.
The rescue of a kitesurfer at Kurnell has won volunteer surf lifesavers the NSW Rescue of the Month award for September 2019.
