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Being in the right place at the right time has saved the life of a man who nearly drowned in the surf at Mona Vale on Wednesday.
The 2018/19 Surf Life Saving patrol season came to an end on Sunday 28 April. All 129 surf clubs in NSW lowered their flags for the final time until September.
Shortly after Midday today a rock fisherman was washed into the surf at Boulders Beach, Lennox Head.
Easter is a notoriously high-risk holiday for drownings and surf lifesavers are on standby for what is sure to be a busy Easter/Anzac Day period on NSW beaches.
A mass rescue of any kind is a big operation for a patrol to manage. On 17 February 40 people fell victim to being swept off a sandbar suddenly at North Cronulla. In a single moment what seemed like a perfect day at the beach could have ended in tragedy. This incredible operation has now been awarded with both the Surf Life Saving NSW Rescue of the Year and Australian Rescue of the Month.
In late December 2018, Doug Hawkins led one of the largest Surf Rescue Certificate (SRC) courses in the country at Coogee SLSC. Among the 84-strong squad of new lifesavers were two 13 year-olds, Ginevra Aiello and Amelie Filippi.
When a person goes missing on the vast, rugged far southern NSW coastline, it often takes the expertise of many agencies to perform a successful search and rescue operation.
Lifesavers from four surf clubs mounted a joint response to rescue a man at Foresters Beach on the Central Coast this morning.
