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- There has never been a rescue at Bondi Beach like this in 70 years as tragedy strikes when two unconscious patients are discovered in the water. The lifeguards will need to act quick to save lives.
- Christmas Eve and day are traditionally extremely busy on Bondi and this year is even worse. Especially tourists and drunks get into trouble by the dozens. Many lifeguards generously sacrifice their own family merriment, seeking some compensation together and with free seasonal beach entertainment. Yates even dresses up as Santa. They all stay hours after their official shifts, knowing drowning can't be prevented otherwise.
- A hot, busy day spells extra work, so Chappo reinforces the rostered life guards. Dunstan must stay in the tower when everyone helps a Korean student who needs the defibrillator, so a tourist is sent to deliver the machine. A week later, he attends the debriefing with a reanimation expert.
- Possible new lifeguards try to prove that they are the right material for the job. Troy is allowed to come back for a second year while Adriel (Bacon) is allowed to begin his first year. As a body is spotted floating nearby the cliffs Corey and young Troy head to its aid. Soon they discover that there is not much they can do but bring it over to the police. As they wait for the water police a shark takes interest in the situation and is circling the jet ski.
- Eager beaver Andrew Reidy is the new kid in the rescue team on Bondi beach, Australia's most popular sea bathing and mass aquatic sports site. He shows unlimited energy and zeal, even by their high standards. Saving swimmer lives is practically daily routine for them. The colleagues are a bit more relaxed. After a recent white ('Jaws') shark sighting, the boys patrol- and dive among various shark species, including man-eaters.
- In a typical Saturday at Bondi the tower is overrun by blue bottle victims. Today they all are from China, most under 14, and only one of them can speak English.
- A 14 year old boy is rushed to the tower suffering a drug overdose. While a man suffers a severe compound fracture to his big toe, penguins invade the beach.
- Sydney faces an unprecedented six days heat wave, causing droves to flock to the beach, where sunstrokes abound, like dehydration, which doesn't square with vomiting as after getting in seawater. More cliff cut victims. A prankster pretends to be stuck under a grid.
- Sometimes tourists' courage is great, like a surfer who keeps laughing when Deano must bandage his battered face with broken nose like a mummy, but when an Indian gets caught by the currant during a soccer ball game, five mates in turn attempting to come to the rescue all become needy until Ready and Yates arrive. Bondi must be cleared when a shark, jumping to a seagull too close, is spotted by surfers. Ready checks the nets, which limited attacks and prevented fatalities for 80 years. Later a shark circling a salmon school within the nets is spotted from the air, but not reported until a Navy diver loses a hand to a shark in Sydney harbor. Hours later, Bondi surfer Glenn after lifeguard duty also looses his left hand by a shark who is chased by his twenty colleagues. The beach is closed until Bacon finds no shark left.
- A dramatic fight breaks out when a man confronts a photographer taking pictures of his topless girlfriend. Meanwhile, Deano performs a mass rescue for a group not taking their situation seriously.
- A hot New Year's Eve in Sidney, droves come to Bondi for a dive, intoxicated and elated. Even mooners are tolerated now, but it's rescues non-stop while the tide is traitorous. So ten life-guards are on duty, even Kerrbox with a foot in plaster. Two surfers fall badly with serious neck/spinal injury risks. Even the boys's own jet-ski breaks down, turning it into a hazard itself, but Troy brings it in safely.
- With the day starting off with a crowd up to 20.000 people; bluebottles and a suspected spinal injury cause even more mayhem. With crowds this crazy, lifeguards change from saving lives in the water to saving lives on the beach. Sharks are now added to the mix as well and an unnecessary shark alarm makes lifeguards frustrated.
- A joker has planted a small shark in the kids pool. The first fatal victim this year is a rescued seagull. Drifters are a drag, but worse are missing divers, sometimes even requiring helicopter assistance. Shift ends at 7PM, but when people stay later the guards can't leave and risk deaths. The cyclone season ends the year on the beach. Now it's nearly empty and officially closed.
- On a sunny Valentine's day with a strong current, many kids needs rescuing, parents are scolded for failing to keep a close eye on them. Maxie is cruelly 'tested' by triple boxing champion Bob who resists orders to move with his glass board to the surfing section. Blake must try 'rescuing' an uncooperative veteran in a ruthless current near to the rocks.
- Even on an apparently quiet day, the life guards are flat out with serial rescues. A rescued Korean student shows that water in the lungs can bother you for a long time. A Britton learns fishing from the rocks can lead to a terrible fall. Kyle demonstrates a Hawaiian cross between Polynesian rowing and modern board surfing. When he's shown a suspicious canister, his safety measures are substandard. Kerrbox calls for professional help - the police and bomb squad arrive, and so ever more beach is closed off. The boys miss out on most of Valentine's evening to assist them.
- A Nepali guy nearly manages to drown in water so shallow he could stand up if only he listened to Bisho. That same day three rescuees have potentially serious back injuries. The wind is so strong a kite surfer becomes a toy out of control. Still the regional life guards competition goes on, after 'friendly' team taunting. The Bondi boys miss sick Scotty, so Maxie is fielded. Even their last hope, the additional surf race on old-fashioned Coolite (foam board) doesn't pay off. Next day the help volunteers who teach people with missing limbs to enjoy aquatic sports.
- Bondi's never seen a summer quite like this. Record heat, record crowds, record waves, and record rescues.
- The day starts off with a missing child; left in front of lifeguards thinking that they would watch her. But as it turns out; lifeguards are not babysitters. As usual; Bondi is popular under bag thieves, luckily the tower has equipped a surveillance camera this year. Not a lot of water rescues today; but there is a lost dog, a lost man with learning difficulties and again a bag thief.
- After over 20 years, Bondi welcomes the world's best surfers again, notably ninefold world champion Kelly Slater, who teams up in the first event with has-been Kerrbox, whose board is soaped up by an anonymous prankster. Whippet fails to qualify by bad luck, Kobi gets in. Others remain on rescue duty during the events, next being an 'airial', surf jumps.
- In the carnival atmosphere of surfing and music, a roll of builders plastic becomes a make-shift slip and slide on a hill at South Bondi. But what seemed like a good idea at the time ends badly.
- It's Christmas Day on Bondi and road weary travellers, local families, and Christmas orphans come to see Santa make an appearance on Australia's most famous strip of sand.
- The team stay busy dealing with a three pronged onslaught: a British tourist who dislocates a shoulder; an events organiser with a suspected spinal injury and a flurry of people stung by blue bottles.
- An intense low pressure system between New Zealand and Tasmania has dispatched giant waves to Bondi and surrounding beaches.
- A few days after another unconfirmed shark sighting, Scott Wright (34) comes forward with a wounded arm. He claims to be the first Bondi swimmer seriously attacked in over 70 years. Although Scott's girl-friend confirms his shady story, which soon makes the press worldwide, the lifeguards come to doubt it. Untimately a shark expert steps by to examine it scientifically.
- It's a sunny day without school, so Bondi beach is crawling with youngsters on top of tourists and regular locals. The lifeguards are flat out, with Whippet making most rescues. Hoppo spends hours taking lost local Bobby (9) under his wing, even retrieves his belongings, only to see the rascal return to 'kindred spirit' Maxi. While a falsely accused man protests his arrest, the accuser assures his own prosecution by attacking the handcuffed man.
- Bondi's lifeguard team must switch to nursing mode when hundreds of swimmers are stung by an armada of Portuguese man of war ('bluebottle') jellyfish, whose long, poisonous tentacles hurt for half an hour. A Brazilian dancer went down and is totally paralyzed.
- Bacon bravely takes manual charge of clearing the nippers pool of stingrays that drifted in during high tide. A brave local adolescent pulls off a toe nail that was ripped off in a cliff fall. Recruit Max Ashford starts on the job around the New Year's mass beach dance. Troy and Kailan handle a fresh homeless theft suspect until the police can arrest him. Next day, Sunday, a fire in the historic pavilion. A teenage victim cares more for her prank-lost bikini top then drowning risks, even with Whippet on duty.
- Eight months age, big wave surfing champion Kobi broke his neck smashed to a rock, but mercifully has spinal cord didn't snap, so emergency surgery gave him hope to walk again. Friendly rivalry peaks like every year as the boys train their super-fit tails off for the prestigious life guard teams iron man. Quinn's paramedic training comes in handy with refuge boy Kenny's drunk near-drowning likely to have incurred secondary drowning. Against doctor's advice, Kobi exercises ever more and even partakes in the iron man. Hoppo can be especially proud of him, Harries, Bacon and Azza for excellent times.
- The annual skateboarding competition Bowl-o-rama attracts the world's best for $50,000, but serious injuries spare nobody. Kobi finally returns to duty. Back Cloud's bad luck 'curse' reputation works again on the beach, including students and a wheelchair user. However an unusual incident at the risky Flatc Rock cliffs initiated by jellyfish attacking a spear fisher takes the cake, requiring an air bridge by helicopter.
- Sydney Mardi Gras means daft competitions, including drag races, but also alcohol,abuse and even illegal party drugs. Ever more tourists speak so little English that translations must be recorded on iPods. A novel problem slithers in: a poisonous sea snake, which Bacon actually rescues.
- The weather-forecast for Australia day was record heat, but it starts with heavy fog, a rarity, so bad the beach must be closed several hours. Then an inflatable devices record is set. Drunk young Daniel says to ignore how he incurred a deep arm wound an a smaller one, suggesting glass cuts. After Matt selects an Aussie face for the day, a pointless fight occurs. Nxet day, brothers Azza and Kobi help an skateboarding accident victim and the team looks for a missing boy, soon helped by police, successfully despite misleading cloths description from the mother.
- A giant swarm of stingers hits Bondi, leaving beachgoers in pain and distress. Lifeguards are stretched as they must treat hundreds of men, women, and children. Meanwhile, a surfboard has washed up.
- Like each new rescue summer season, the boys must all pass grueling tests to be admitted to duty. Matt Dee misses the swimming pool maximum time by 9", due to a holiday infection, but makes up brilliantly. The first time in five years, a female passes, an experienced surfer, but new to the job. Gonzo, stuck in the tower due to a serious surfboard-chest-injury, is annoying some mates by 'playing Hoppo' and subjected to a black-eyed prank. On an exceptionally hot and crowded day with high, hence dangerous waves, Hoppo agrees Gonzo must clear the central beach by shark siren when all field staff is over-stretched on the riskier outer beaches.
- A man is dragged unconscious from the water and without a pulse. Reidy and Beardy attach the defibrillator and oxygen mask and begin resuscitation. Can the boys bring him back?
- A cyclonic swell hits Bondi Beach with 12 foot waves sucking beachgoers out to sea. It is Harries' most challenging rescue of the season as he and his patient are slammed repeatedly into the rocks.
- An inexperienced surfer is sucked into a vortex. Yatesy paddles into 10 foot swell for a rescue that doesn't go to plan, finding himself washed up on the rocks with his patient nowhere to be seen.
- This episode is jam-packed with adrenaline, laughs and tears as the season ends on a personal note for the lifeguards.
- A tornado hits Bondi, but that doesn't stop a group of tourists hitting the beach and getting in serious danger. Plus, Glick offers some sage advice to Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull.
- Bondi's chiselled lifeguards get an "abs"olute run for their money when Manpower Australia make a surprise visit to the tower. Singlets races to a rescue in the buggy and gets a surprise passenger.
- The lifeguards meet the incredible blind Brazillian surfer Derek Rabelo who is catching waves on Bondi Beach. Then, the afternoon turns to chaos when hordes of blue bottles descend upon the beach.
- Many Bondi life-guards are top athletes, most got their first training as kids, all go out of their way to help kick-start the next and nipper generations of potential recruits. Eager Blake and Maxie do extra training together. A cocky beach drug possession suspect resists arrest. Next lost little Justin trusts only Maxie while and a storm approaches until his dad turns up with kid brother.
- It's the day before the New Year and Paris Hilton brings a visit. The morning after the night before people still suffer from all the alcohol and the drugs. There is a group of underage drinkers and they go from being brought to the hospital for almost drowning to being arrested and going to the police station.
- Dunstan (Dunno) is the new trainee this season and is thrown right into the deep end; a man with a dislocated shoulder and a suspected spinal injury just a few minutes after each other. When a guy with a deep cut is added to that, Dunstan is on his own. When all the commotion is over two boys who have been assaulted come to the tower, but did they find the right guy? The whole team watches as Dunstan makes his first rescue (twice).
- The Bondi boys wonder which type of swimwear is most sexy and practical. A strong current makes swimmers desperate. One missing surfer isn't found, but luckily it turns out to be a misunderstanding. The boys still hold their annual Ironman contest, sponsored by the public, racing through monster waves.
- A scientist choses a busy day, when the sun draws a growing beach crowd, to test the life guard's physical and mental stress. Fitted with cardio-sensors and GPS, their heart-rate and distances are measured. A man in mysteriously rapid shock is diagnosed as being allergic to cold water. A daredevil waves Deano's advice and has an inexperienced friend set his dislocated shoulder back. Most time-consuming is the helicopter-assisted search for a drunk Irishman, who didn't drown in the shallow but wandered back to his car. After a 132 rescues days, heart-rates frequently doubling, tripling of worse, their job is declared the hardest of life services, equivalent to a whole rugby season in one week.
- The Bondi boys take a dim view of boogie board 'wrestling', as surfing with cheap sub-size junk is just unreliable and dangerous, especially with poor swimmers. Dynamic duo Maxi and Jesse uses a stormy way to test another novel contraption, which Hoppo later scolds as irresponsible childish mucking. Assined to collect buoys, Jesse disables his jet-ski by dusk, way out at sea.
- Flat rock make more youngster daredevil diver victims. Ladysman Harries had found Emily on a blind date and wants a romantic proposal during a helicopter flight, requiring a whole sign-digging Bondi crew, but first Hoppo and Kerrbox first trick him to a string-only spray tan- in ugly blue.
- During the festive season, Bondi swells with international visitors. Swapping snowflakes for sunscreen, many of them are unaware that lifeguards do not patrol the beach after 7pm.
- A local Bondi surf photographer helps lifeguards save a Nepalese tourist, but the battle to keep him alive continues on the sand.
- It's an extremely hot day on Bondi, so must assistance is for sunburn-victims. Still there are also an OD, bad falls and hopelessly inept swimmers. Although even the athletic lifeguards are exhausted by the heat, they soldier on relentlessly and help everybody.
- As summer starts to heat up most Australians are winding down at work and getting ready to break for the holiday period. But for the Bondi Rescue lifeguards it's the busiest time of the year.
- Bondi is known as a party town and on New Years' Eve 15,000 revellers descend on the beach front for the Shore Thing Concert. At 5am the following morning lifeguards arrive to deal with the aftermath.
- Bondi Rescue follows the work of elite lifeguards in charge at the world's busiest beach. With people's lives literally in their hands, these lifeguards ensure safety is their number one priority.
- On a rainy day, tourist still arrive, often even poorer swimmers then their English, like an Indan family getting in multiple trouble. Harries, as avid fan, gives most famous fictive lifeguard David Hasselhoff, known here as 'the Hoff', on ice-cream promotion tour, a warm welcome. More rescues, including one by a volunteer who needs pro help soon, and bruised cliff divers. Even a seasoned English skateboarder makes a nasty fall on the slippery ramp.
- It's a lively surfing day, but that also means swimmers are easily deceived, so rescues must be worked off serially. Even a giant Yankee who is an excellent swimmer but drunk needs rescuing. Kyle Pao, who enjoyed his apprenticeship on Bondi two years earlier, now hosts on his Hawaian beaches, where the surf is monumentally stronger, an Aussie trio comprising Wippet, old Kerrbox and Dunstan, who come to learn about high waves rescues. Meanwhile a Canadian demonstrates braveness with his ninth dislocated shoulder and H's spying helps the police deal with beach thieves.
- Bondi hosts the Boost Air Show, a world class international surfing tournament. A pair of incorrigible daredevil knaves deliberately keeps going into dangerous waters until the lifeguards call the police. Brad practices his hobby, photography, mostly on the beach. Russian-born heart patient George has a stroke. Besides Bondi proper, the station also watches over bordering small beaches Tamara and Bronte, where two year-old Korean girl is missing. Mouse leads a heroic search and rescue, recorded by free lance photographer Fergus Woolveridge.
- Reidy once a skinny city boy, now successfully challenges the 100 km treadmill world record for a children charity benefit. A beach thief strikes repeatedly until the boys can hand the minor (16) over to the police. A paddle-boarder boastfully practices yoga at sea, but later drifts into it. The mates match her to Reidy, who just lost his girlfriend and custody of their dog, whom he replaced with a mutt from the asylum who proves a dating bonus. A skateboarder (16) makes a bad fall, a case of swallowed sea water.
- Bondi faces its wettest, coldest Christmas in decades. Santa Yates surfs, skateboards and break-dances, only a day earlier, before the crowd flees. Playful recruit Taco (18) still pays his dues and is trained, with Maxi as mentor. Reidy and swimming champion Spot Anderson are mistakenly believed in need of rescue.
- 2013 takes a lively, busy start with lots of drunk revelers, some of whom even steal shortly Harries's buggy. After a shark attack nearby, sightings must be taken seriously. Ultimately Hoppo must decides to sound the alarm and leaves that honor to delighted rookie Taco. Meanwhile an ex lifeguard report a child presumably kidnapped.
- A drunk woman goes missing in the water so the boys bring in the chopper to help find her. Also, Terry has the most critical rescue of the season, which brings back some emotional memories for him.
- A drunk woman goes missing in the water so the boys bring in the chopper to help find her. Also, Terry has the most critical rescue of the season, which brings back some emotional memories for him.
- Huge waves come to Bondi and Bisho is forced to perform a cliff-face rescue using just flippers and a rescue tube. Meanwhile, new trainee Taco lands himself in the boss's office for rookie errors.
- Huge waves come to Bondi and Bisho is forced to perform a cliff-face rescue using just flippers and a rescue tube. Meanwhile, new trainee Taco lands himself in the boss's office for rookie errors.
- Huge waves come to Bondi and Bisho is forced to perform a cliff-face rescue using just flippers and a rescue tube. Meanwhile, new trainee Taco lands himself in the boss's office for rookie errors.
- As life guards must train to stay in mint condition all season, it's no surprise the Bondi boys traditionally about all take part in an annual Iron Man charity event, where each has his benchmark, such as proving seniors aren't over the hill, that young dogs are ripe or simply win a rivalry. Novices Maxi and Bacon, who accepted a bet to participate in full clothing, are in the lead with ever-excellent Whippet, but old dog Hoppo keeps up commendably. Ready is satisfied to beat Chapman, a first, Beardy to escape last place and hence a year of latrine cleaning, Ben Sutherland's fate.
- It's Christmas, but this year the Santa role falls to Reidy, who is generally felt, despite valiant efforts on the jet-ski, to be embarrassingly less credible or amusing then Yatesy. This season the boys have a recruit all the way from New Zealand, Harrison Reid, who greatly enjoys being Maxi's equally playful house-mate, exchanging goofy Christmas presents like a dictionary of Australian idiom, and soon proves himself as rescuer too.
- It's December 31, normally a calm day before the New Year's Eve merriment, but this year Bondi beach is flooded with beach-goers, hence badly understaffed. When another daredevil incurs bad barnacle cuts falling on Flat Rock, Chapman isn't inclined to free manpower, but luckily paramedic Quinn in on duty and sees that the victim, who loses lots of blood and nearly consciousness, is quickly treated and hospitalized.
- At the south end of the beach, a man screams in pain when he dislocates his hip. The lifeguards are taken by surprise when the man's friend then has a seizure just metres away, but not everything is as it seems.
- The boys and girl in blue are convinced they have seen it all. But when a man waddles to the tower with a horrendous dog bite on his manhood, the Bondi lifeguards cannot believe their eyes.
- Today's episode is jam-packed with adrenaline, laughs and tears as the season ends on a personal note for the lifeguards.
- Looking back on the past seasons and their own careers, the Bondi boys elaborately explain the serious side of the job, especially when people they rescued from drowning need further medical assistance, first from them until paramedics arrive, or a beach-going medical professional volunteers. Luckily there are also more lighthearted care opportunities, such as tending to petty injuries on attractive bathers. Maxi is a great example how a youngster grows into the job, matures and maintains his cheerful nature and enthusiasm, even way beyond the call of duty.
- Bondi's lifeguards can handle big crowds, rip currents and deadly surf but what happens when the rescue is on Bondi's busiest street?
- It's an exceptional day: the sun lures the crowd but the stormy sea causes them to run risks, so it's injury care and rescues on the double. Perfect surf weather always means major crashes with rocks, each-other, swimmers, even a near-swallowing by a cave. Panic can turn a rescue into a life-guard nightmare. The boys' jet-ski training pays of now, but when the vehicle capsizes it becomes a major hazard itself. Finally a beach volleyball match against India's national cricket team.
- Blake's family witnesses how well he does on the world's busiest beach. Despite routine rescues, the boys wonder and worry about an allegedly missing swimmer. Hours later his worried son (16) tells it's a recently immigrated Mongolian doctor aged 42. Even the police helicopter only 'signals' a shark. When he's finally found, it's just too late: the first fatal victim in 4 years.
- A few Britons show tourists can have more sense than the locals. In the prank war, Whippet and a whole Japanese camera crew convince Kerrbox that he has a spot in an energy drink commercial. However the fake name means something else entirely! Boys on duty find a poisonous black snake under beach rocks, a problem left to a new ranger. Blake is now graduating to multiple simultaneous rescues and even gets the highest daily record. Reidy has another go at braving high surf waves, pitilessly stirred by Corey - it works. Now the summer ends, the boys look back on a hard but rewarding season, but they'll keep in touch during the winter interval.
- At the beginning of a new rescue summer season, the boys seriously consider the shocking experience, a first for Jake, earlier in winter, when a cocksure Japanese swimmer went out too far for help to reach him in time. The Bondi boys are sharper then ever to avoid a repeat the next weeks, and only avoid it last minute. Efforts are doubled to instill on thick-skulled and/or allophone swimmers, especially unskilled tourists, the crucial message to stay safely within the red and yellow flags, yet many wonder off, sometimes idiotically and repeatedly, and must be rescued, like a Nepalese student.
- With the school holiday starting the season, the beach is inundates with Aussie school kids, audacious but without experience: countless cocky would-be heroes get hurt or need rescuing from drowning. A British pool lifeguard also needs the Bondi professionals. The posts at Bondi were decided by grueling tests, three months earlier. Blake did well, but the newest and youngest recruit ever, Trent 'Maxi' Maxwell, is an even stronger candidate. However both are held back in a four days a week training program. Christmas is crazy, some girls even try to strip off Hoppo's trunks!
- Blake's first Bondi New Year is memorable- a streaker and a beach full of spaced-out people, so the boys check if it's just drunks or OD. The celebrities parade now includes self-made billionaire Richard Branson. More routine rescues. Someone fell from a 40 meter high cliff, a helicopter must help pick him up, amazingly with 'mere' multiple fractures. Agoraphobic Kerrbox chickens out of a 'slingshot'.
- The Bondi lifeguards train hard, hoping for a first-ever victory in the regional iron-man competition. The drowned Mongolian isn't digested yet either, yet even Reidi is back on duty within two days. A cardiac arrest patient is beached and fibrillated. Kerrbox joins a radio fating program, with a -willfully too- glowing recommendation from hottie Bishop. Bondi ends 3rd on 13 teams, everyone celebrated colleagually.
- Kerrbox and two other champs demonstrate perfect surfing, bleeding tourists how painful the clumsy version can get. Reidy looses an unfair bet with Blake, his successor as newbie, about backward quad parking. A stormy shower cleans the beach faster then a shark alert. A boy brings in a near-drowned cat.
- Unlike continental Australia, Bondi starts the wettest summer in half a century, but with the sun crowds poor in. The jet-ski saves up to 40 people a day, sometimes so many that some drop off, like Chinese student Kyle, who thus looses his trunks and gets in too much saline water. On Christmas, Harries is jet-Santa and streakers entertain, but alcohol means extra faintings on top of drownings and strays. Just then, an overheated jet-ski breaks down, so Hoppo closes part of the beach.
- Bondi has a grand New Year 2012 party. Part of the beach is dangerously understaffed, so even trainee Max Ayshford (19) is flat out. Deano recognizes a crazy girl who deliberately got in trouble thrice in two weeks, so the police comes shake her up. Matt Dee seizes his chance to flirt. Even off duty, Hoppo and Reidi jump back in. Z-After the longest day even, Dean must return at night for a missing man, luckily just a stray drunk.
- 'Kerrbox')Carlos, a Brazilian fitness trainer surfing with hundreds, incurs a spinal injury, but Whippet, Yates and Troy get him in one piece to the ambulance by jet-ski despite killer waves. Mouse's black cloud is proved despite a beach section swap with Matt, as he still gets to do all rescues, including a spider, and is vomited on a by a rescued man who lost his swim-trunks. On a rainy afternoon, the boys hunt down a rat which disabled a quad, and recycle it to exact some just prank revenge on musophobia-sufferer Kerrbox.
- When a charming young surfer reports his smart-phone stolen, Maxi spares to effort to track it down, diplomatically get suspects to cooperate and call in the police when it's found. Later, Maxi is so amused by a gardener/stripper's free beach act that he even wants to join in but has to pull the plug before the white thong comes down. Friendly beach football ends with a terrible leg fracture for a cute adolescent, whose pain blissfully turns into high heaven thanks to the green whistle. Some clueless tourists are so hopeless at following safety instructions, like a class of Chinese who never saw a beach before, that the lifeguards end up banning them for their own good. Some fans treat their favorite Bondi boys to pictures or even songs, and some sort of woo them for the honor.
- For two months off season, semi-deserted Bondi is guarded by a skeleton summer crew. Dean leads a delegation including Reidy, Yates and Harries, some of whom were there before, to go work with the poorly-equipped colleagues on Bali, in Indonesia, at Kota beach, great for surfing but the most dangerous beach in the world. Marcello's team also has some quirky methods, like massage. The boys have mixed reactions on the bustling tourist town.
- The Bondi six start their second day on Kuta beach, five times as large as Bondi, the Balinese way, which includes a spicy diet, push-ups for latecomers and dance-like calisthenics. Although not yet familiar with the beach, they start rescuing. As they find all equipment inadequate and/or scarce, from communication to boards and medical supplies, Kerrbox gets a long shopping list. Deano likes the Kuta rookie enough to re-dub him Maxi after his own playful Benjamin. Chappo gets squeamish during a visit to the local market, due to the bloodily dismembered animals. Chappo considers a local curiosity, 'scorpion' acrobatics while surfing, a challenge, but he nor Deano can pull it off, unlike the Balinese.
- A season finale with lots of flashbacks, spectacular, funny or rather tragic. To celebrate the end of the tourist season, Maxi organizes a surfing race between 4 teams of four, who each build their own 'boat'. Expert surfer Jesse injures his back seriously but recovers completely. Matt gets to perform his only rescue.
- Hoppo, Deano, Maxi, Jesse and Kerrbox travel to South Australia to cage dive with sharks. Meanwhile, in Bronte the lifeguards must recover the body of a young man found dead in the surf.
- The year 2014 starts terribly busy, with many rescues and even a thefts wave without sufficient proof to arrest the suspect teenage gang. Yet the Bondi boys concentrate on positive sides, such as funny-looking rescues with victims positioned wrongly on the board in Taco's face, and eager rookie Harrison enjoys the endless learning opportunities, but for some injured swimmers it's a crucible.
- The temperature is rising and there are tens of thousands of people on the beach when the lifeguards are called out to a large rescue. Later, can Harries play cupid and find a partner for Singlets?
- Bondi Beach welcomes a six weeks temporary recruit: Kyle Pao, from Oahu (a Hawaiian island), where the surf is higher but the crown and number of rescues far smaller. He does well in hazing and a physical tests, even though Maxie clearly outshines him. He's impressed by the Bondi workload, but shows zeal and promise. The boys happily catch a trio of juvenile pick-pockets.
- A heatwave tortures Bondi visitors. The day has barely begun or the first of many victims fall due to a heat stroke. The next day the wind has brought in the cold water from deep in the ocean, resulting in a heatwave on land and almost freezing ocean water. The lifeguards now change to treating people for hypothermia. As a race starts, not many swimmers make it to the end in the freezing water. When a strong wind comes in, tourists flee the beach, but surfers head in. With more surfers in than waves it is a recipe for collisions.
- Another Australia day guarantees a huge crowd. The lifeguards are flat-out all day, needing up to five men at a time to rescue careless and/or incompetent swimmers, especially as the currents change traitorously. Kyle never has as many clients in a Hawaian week then here in an hour, but does well, like young dogs Maxie and Blake. A shark is sighted by five independent surfers, so Hoppo has to clear the beach.
- There's no dress code on Bondi, but life guards often wish there were. Underwear alone looks hideous, but heavy clothing doubles risks as well as the rescue weight. Other emergencies include a thief, obnoxious dating attempts, sea urchin sting and preteen skater David whose bad fall causes a fracture. Blake is a Mormon and handles the occasional 'religious' prank well, but is called to start his two mission years on the Philippines, so he says goodbye in a dark suit.
- At the end of another summer on Bondi, we look back at the series' third season. Although rainier weather limited the crowds, there still were many rescues and various other emergencies. Hawaiian guest Kyle's return is celebrated with a prank, but real rescues continue daily. A pantomime on beach safety, to tour schools during the winter break, is tried out successfully. Their last day features the traditionally party dress surfing competition between four Bondi teams.
- When Corey calls his cop cousin Oliver for a noisy group of nude-revelers near families, hash is discovered. While a nasty wind clears the beach, the bluebottle jellyfish it carries floods the towers with sting victims. In the hassle, someone would have drowned without an alert boy and a surfing former lifeguard. Next day, a Chinese kids group is to clumsy to be rescued with dignity, their chaperons too clueless to be evacuated, but Maxie finds a translation app, and when they ignore that that a live translator with authority.
- Maxi rescues a young girl who is not used to the Australian ocean. A mass rescue is starting, but as fast as it started, it is also over. A boy is dragged form the surf by his friends. He remains conscious, but complaints of pain makes the lifeguards suspect a spinal injury.
- On a quiet day, five life guards model for photographers. Only a bit further a Japanse youngster, later identified as English student Taka(hiro) from Tokyo, washes up Bondi without a pols; only after the third, last feasible defibrillation, Taka is revived and hospitalized. Next Australia Day, a time of patriotic fun and for reasons unknown floating devices. The Bondi chief gets to raise the flag at city hall, a rare honor. Various tourists with minor injuries get good care. The boys can't help competing in the gym, especially now their annual competition approaches.
- During depressing weather, the life guards do their 'housekeeping'. As soon as the surfers ride the waves again, they'll have plenty of wounds to clean, some painfully deep. Especially the locals who excel in the crazy art of diving from sharp rocks, and newbies that wash up against them.
- A sunny summer Sunday on Bondi attracts 30,000 bathers. Cory first removes a stingray from the children's pool. Rescues chain up on industrial scale, manpower just isn't enough, so the beach must be temporarily closed till the gentler tide. The police must help handle a fight among the generally unruly 'beached' crowd. Generally beloved Deano sneakily prepares a surprise proposal to his steady girlfriend while surfing.
- On Australia Day, we consider what sassy behavior is Australian- on the beach, nearly everything goes. The annual Bondi swimming classic must be halted because of a swarm of poisonous jellyfish. When all senior colleagues are engaged elsewhere, 'cadet' Blake gets his first major solo rescue. The police is called to arrest a foreign beach thief, the boys make sure he can't escape first. A beached seas turtle is beyond rescue.
- Amid a shark sighting, attack victim Glenn Orgias comes by and tells lifeguards about the day he lost an arm to a white pointer at South Bondi. American heart throb Zac Efron also hits the beach.
- Hoppo expects the new season may be even busier then the seven ones before. Reidy, Whippet, former victim Hayden, other locals and the security cameras are key to catch a new bag thieves, soon turned over to the police despite resistance. The boys have kept fit during their winter holiday to pass the annual test. For Nestor Harry 'H' Nightingale (53), who went to Java, the challenge is the rule he must finish no later then 5 minutes after the winner, in this case Deano, but he makes it with lots of encouragement, one boy even stays back with him. The noise of Bondi's crowd can be a problem, for giving safety instructions and searching missing persons.
- Just before the summer season starts for real, the veterans intensively train the recruits, including Blake who struggles with diving in Greg's team. The bathers enjoy a hot Christmas, but toasting with (banned) alcohol often bodes trouble. More routine rescues: Reidy cheerfully saves Asians tourists, twice in half an hour. The boys celebrate with bears afterward. Next Reidy faces his last fear: surfing huge waves, ably coached by Hoppo but lacking confidence.
- Christmas (Summer down under): Bondi beach is swarming with swimmers. A cheesy Irish girl 'abuses' a rescue hunk, even insists to go face-to-face on his surf plank. The Nestor hazes 'lazy brat' Reidy ruthlessly, by tradition. Six months earlier, the studs' annual tests on an icy day cost four their dream job. When tourists aren't drowning, they need medical help after a bad fall on the skateboard ring. The shark nets need another checkup.
- New year's Eve is the world's greatest beach party, even the lifeguards are also involved. The next day, the hottest New year ever, is their biggest challenge, a back-breaking total of 50 interventions. They range from French tourist Jean's dislocated arm to epidemics of sun burns and OD's. The boys even help the police round up a thieving gang of youths.
- As if 2500 rescues a year weren't challenging enough, the rescuers compete constantly- once a year even in an iron man race, with grueling handicaps up to 12 on circa 30 minutes. An informal competition is the -in principle after hours- dating game, where hot gentleman Greg 'Bisho'(p) excels. Tonight the studs speed-date. Many have another job on rainy days, e.g. fireman.
- Everybody trains -even secretly every spare minute- for the Bondi Iron Man, which won't be canceled on account of stormy 'sharky' weather without a Jaws sighting. Meanwhile a beach ball game ended in a dislocated shoulder. Six drowning friends at once require three lifeguards, Blake does great again. The race is bitter but fair and funny, also on account of costumes, the only cheater is punished by fate. Finally there's a bet and a prank revenge.
- Bondi tries an atypical recruit for one year: Jesse Pollock is a 'Bra Boy', from backward Sydney neighborhood Maroubra's fierce surfers 'tribe', under Kobe Abberton, and has a juvenile record. Even part-time paramedic Bobby Yaldwin is puzzled by Calvin (11)'s mystery fainting from excruciating abdominal pain.
- Bodi's subsidiary beach Tamarama is notoriously fickle, notably perilously for surfing near the dangerous, nearly inaccessible 'Twins' rocks. Bacon and trainee Jesse learn the ropes there from veterans like Whippet in mock rescues. Stormy weather requires mass surfer rescues for real.
- The boys are flat-out at a crowded, hot day with many people ignoring the warning flags and signs, which Terry tests with a cash prize. Reidy is called to the parking lot for bees congregating during a storm, so Bondi vet Chris Brown in consulted.
- As always tourists are the cause for sticky situations at Bondi. As they can't understand the Lifeguards, 'H' is pulled into a rescue that is seconds away from being a drowning. Lucky to be saved out of the water, the man finds out quickly that that doesn't mean he's out of danger.
- When the weather is so beach guests stay away, the life guards train superior surfing. Some volunteer to teach kids safe surfing. A wave of poisonous jellyfish causes a flood of petty panickers. A tidal current however is life-threatening can require a grueling rhythm of rescues, up to 30 in a matter of minutes.
- Now the sun is back, Bondi starts a new summer season. 35 lifeguards meet, old and new, including Blake (a city-boy age 18!), to bond during a refresher course to the great joy of a female audience. Real rescues start almost immediately- Blake does well. There is a real but short big (hammer?) shark alarm, reported by a clubbie (non-professional life-guard). Blake also handles a 'frivolous' problem: two studs skinny-dipping.
- The Bondi boys enjoy speculating about another, rubber Unidentified Floating Object, which both Maxes collects and remove, but can't classify. Worse is a fleet of Portuguese men on war (jellyfish). A surf crash victim is 'lucky' to be rammed by a chiropractor. Maxiis easy to test his invention, a jet-ski-dragged surf&skate-board, but even Jesse can't make it work. A cliff visitor fell on his own knife.
- Trainee Tommy learns a valuable lesson when he completes one of the funniest rescues of the season. Meanwhile, Troy races to rescue a young girl drowning directly in front of the tower.
- It is just another typical summer's day at Bondi, except for one very big difference. After 10 years' service, Bondi's beloved son - Trent 'Maxi' Maxwell is on his last day as a full-time lifeguard.
- It's Christmas on Bondi Beach and the local homeless guy Ben fell off the rocks and suspects he has a broken leg, but doesn't realize he has quite some bad burns as well. This year Santa arrives on jet ski and has banned junk food as a gift, so he comes bearing fruits. Alcohol is in fact banned from Bondi Beach but with so much going on, the lifeguards can't attend to everything. But many tourists find out alcohol and swimming is a dangerous combination. English tourist Eddie dislocates his finger in the surf, but without travel insurance he rather tries to put is back himself than go to hospital. When a lost kid who doesn't speak English winds up at the tower, Christmas day is officially over-booked.
- The Roosters NRL team go surfing with the lifeguards, but tragedy strikes when one of the players runs over Yatesy on a rescue board, breaking his ribs and puncturing his lung.
- Tragedy comes to Bondi when a Chinese backpacker is left in a coma after a late evening swim. Lifeguards are rattled by the after-hours tragedy.
- Lifeguards are confronted by an inconsolable mother suffering heatstroke who has lost her 3-year-old child. Later, Tommy and Harrison treat hundreds of people suffering bluebottle stings.
- An American tourist needs CPR after being pulled unconscious from the ocean in calm waters.
- The lifeguards take the beach buggy into the streets as they chase down an aggressive beachgoer wielding a knife.
- With a record 234 rescues performed in Bondi on one day, Australia's prettiest playground can quickly become a nightmare for tourists not used to the precarious surf conditions.
- Trainee Lachie will also find out if he has made a big enough impression on Hoppo and the team to earn him a permanent spot on the Bondi lifeguard squad.
- Jethro is faced with the most challenging rescue of his career and the Lifeguards suddenly become the ones in danger when the 4WD buggy is swamped by waves.
- In the throes of massive swell and unpredictable weather, the Bondi lifeguards push each other to their limits in the annual lifeguard challenge.
- The tower is on high alert when a swimmer's quick dip results in a possible spinal injury and the lifeguards farewell a much-loved member of the squad.
- The lifeguards are still coming to terms with the worst tragedy on Bondi Beach in decades when Singlets attempts his first rescue since the incident. Plus, why is Hoppo telling kids to swim in a rip?
- A man is reported to have fallen from cliffs, but when Jesse arrives the situation takes an unexpected turn. Later the police chopper arrives and the story takes another, far more tragic turn.
- When a backpacker has a violent seizure for over 15 minutes, team leader Beardy fears long-term consequences.
- It's been a long hot summer and as Bondi swells with beach lovers, the lifeguards feel the pressure. This year's unpredictable events are really going to test the boys and girls in blue.
- Sixteen-year old trainee Temika does her first serious rescue, so the boys decide to up the stakes and invite her into the annual lifeguard ironman challenge.
- World surfing icon Kelly Slater comes to town. A woman is found slashing herself with a razor blade, while a man suffers a seizure after a big night. The crew see their biggest head cut of the year.
- n a busy episode of Bondi Rescue, two teenagers wake at the beach to find their money and phones missing, while skate pros and fans hit the sand for the Bowlarama contest.
- A man reports to lifeguards that his friend has not been seen since going for a midnight-swim. Fearing the worst, a major search is launched for the missing man.
- Four months ago, the 36 lifeguards all passed rigorous tests in pool and ocean. Maxi did them without swimsuit to make up for rival rookie Jake's faster pool times. After 3 years, youngest-ever trainee Maxi must either be properly engaged are let go. He volunteers to bring in and bury the corpse of a shark and gets a part-time contract. Fellow trainee Jake gets to man the tower for lack of experienced colleagues on call while a floating body, signaled by the police, must be searched for down the cliffs and is awarded another year apprenticeship.
- Jesse and Trent of Bondi Rescue head out on their jet skis for a 3000 kilometre journey from Sydney to Cairns to raise awareness for youth mental illness.
- A miscommunication between lifeguards on the radio could cause serious problems in the water. Mouse and Chappo help a family to find their lost Grandma, but the reunion ends up being a little unusual.
- Harrison's life is in danger when a double rescue almost goes horribly wrong. An ambulance is called for a man with abdominal pain, and lifeguards of shocked to hear the extraordinary story behind it.
- The new season starts well with a sunny period, actually too crowded and too long, so the lifeguards are flat out all day, and can't actually enjoy their well-deserved recreation even after their official end of shift as people stubbornly remaining in the water risk drowning. Maxi, finally made pro, musters his courage to check-out 'shark-alerts', causing panic when sounded by impatient surf club amateurs, luckily found to be just ray-fish or, when Reidy swims to the largest one, 'meercat'.
- It's a sunny Christmas, so all life-guards rescue non-stop. Deano's ma brings him a picnic on the beach, but he barely has time for a bite. Some tourists are utterly helpless, like a lost Korean boy whom even Harris can't calm down. Others are brave, like an English surfer without medical insurance whom no strong painkiller may be given and still sets his broken finger. Yates enjoys his Santa on jet-ski part. A homeless men fell, broke several ribs but didn't cry out until found.
- It's New Year's Eve, so the beach is full, yet all (young) eyes are on Hollywood visitor Paris Hilton, even from her life-guards escort, novice Dunstan and even former soap star Whippet, who for once seems speechless. After a short silence to admire the first sunrise, the rescue team is flat-out again, due to the huge crowd and lots of drunks, mostly friendly -nobody even takes offense at a festive streaker- but still a potential danger, at least to themselves. Deano's boys can't enforce the legal alcohol ban and rarely call in the equally overworked police, once one of their boards gets 'borrowed' by a Californian surfer. Some tourists are utterly brave, like a young veteran skater who badly broke another finger.
- The lifeguards are used to handle lost kids and everybody usually forgets about the ban n animals, but now Harries finds a bothersome stray dog quite testing. Maxi, Beardy and Dunstan concentrate on making best use of security cameras to handle theft suspects and Deano's boys call the police also when complaints report a 'peeping Tom playing with himself on the beach'.
- Now he finally has a first contract, Maxi, realizing his dream of of becoming the youngest life guard, aspires staying even older then H. He also decides, at 19, to move out of home, into the surf-club where Corey lives as caretaker, getting the keys while his new mentor is abroad for months. Doubts are justified, as his first day on the new Rhino beach vehicle already fulfilled his accident-prone curse.
- As every year, lifeguards had to secure a sought-after place in the Bondi team trough rigid tests, even the professionals. Two extremely athletic newcomers join the crew, Afrile Young (nicknamed 'Bacon' because he physically resembles Hollywood star Kevin) and Troy 'Gonzo' Quinlan. Corey needs to provide extra psychological support to the last, who soon faces the traumatic experience of a missing man who, despite braving sharks, is only found as a drowned corpse.
- As if the lifeguards hadn't enough work with actual rescues, many swimmers ignore safety instructions, one even floats face-down and wears a life guard vest. Maxi handles most with kindness and charm, some barely respond to H's near-rude explicit style. Alas danger looms even on the beach, as for a skater boy aged ten whose fall causes a bad head wound.
- Another bluebottle invasion comes and goes with the wind, braved despite warnings by the ignorant and the 'tough'. . Novices Maxi and Dunstan, who finish a season-long internship, wait for Hoppo's verdict- Dunstan is hired, Maxi gets another intern season, with the winners of an 'academy' started p with nine youngsters. After more successful rescues, in one case aided by a helicopter to spot a long-missing swimmer, the team looks back at a most satisfactory season.
- More memorable rescues and other aspect of Bondi. The most prominent story, a beach-collapsed man's alleged shark bite, turned out a hoax landing the fraudster in jail for robbery. Bishop demonstrates the art of rescuing without getting your hair wet. Panicking victims and/or their helpful friends can complicate matters seriously. Lost children are an emotional challenge, in a Korean boy's case Harries's most testing one. H admits his megaphone lecturing is sometimes over the top.
- The Bondi rescue lifeguards are pushed to their limits dealing with a myriad of alcohol and drug affected beach goers. Will the record-breaking heat and crowds prove too much for the lifeguards?
- Harrison faces an impossible choice with two swimmers in trouble and only one rescue board. Plus, how will the boys react when international supermodel Heidi Klum visits the lifeguard tower?
- The lifeguards are presented with a two year old girl who is trapped in a locked car in sweltering heat. Plus, lifeguards Jethro and Corey spot a bag thief on the beach.
- Maxi puts his life on the line to rescue two fishermen from a capsized boat. Meanwhile, Jethro is furious after rescuing a group of tourists who have ignored several warnings about going into a rip.
- Lifeguards Trent and Harrison tend to a skateboarder who has broken his arm when Harrison spots two girls drowning. Meanwhile, the lifeguards and police chase after a bag thief who was exposed on CCTV.
- At the end of every season, all lifeguard jobs are up for review. For Bondi's trainees, the best way of cementing their futures is by beating the big guns in the swimming challenge.
- It's Christmas Day on Bondi Beach and the lifeguards patience is being tested by beachgoers. Later on, will Trainee Tommy be able to wrangle a highly venomous sea snake before it does any damage?
- The tempers of the Bondi lifeguards are put to the test as they face the deadliest summer yet as they encounter heatwaves, bag thieves, street hoodlums, sharks, cuts, broken bones and countless rescues.
- On New Ears day, Bondi is more overcrowded then ever. First it's mainly revelers who come cool down, party on or sleep off booze on the beach. Dozing off in the rising sun is dangerous, so the boys must check up and have some removed into the shade. Even helped by volunteer auxiliary and surfers, the Bondi boys are utterly overstretched with so many swimmers in trouble. They fear for mass drowning when a record number of Dutch turn u for the new Year dive, but those orange cap bearers all return safely. In the end, Hoppo tries to clear the beach after shift by shark alarm, but it fails in the south side, so the men must stay longer. Trent 'Singlets' and his tower team partner Mario make up only afterward, Mario having made a scene after being rebuked for failing to give Jesse proper location instructions during jet-ski rescues.
- With its sparkling charm and picture-perfect scenery, hundreds of tourists flock to Bondi every single day. However the Lifeguards are on edge due to extreme weather conditions and large crowds.
- Harries and Jake head to North Bondi where they find a man dazed and confused after suffering a brutal attack. And, who will come out on top in one of the hardest lifeguard challenges of all time?
- Ryan, Jethro and Harries are on duty when some early morning beach walkers run up to the tower to say they think they have seen a body near North Bondi.
- When the biggest swell of the year rolls in, big wave surfer Jesse decides to test new recruits Tommy and Jules. Training is one thing but how will Tommy manage to rescue two intoxicated patients?