Sun, Mar 20, 2011
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.
Sun, Feb 27, 2011
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.
Mon, Feb 6, 2006
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.
Tue, Mar 24, 2009
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.
2013
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.