surf lifesaving

In New Zealand, surf lifesaving is both a sport and a community service.

Surf lifesaving is also popular in New Zealand, with national championships being held yearly.

In 2004 Surf Lifesaving Australia gave different hazard ratings to each end of the beach.

The southern beach has a Surf Lifesaving Club with facilities including toilets, accessed from a road below the headland.

Surf lifesaving is a multifaceted movement that comprises key aspects of voluntary lifeguard services and competitive surf sport.

In 2000 she was selected by Surf Lifesaving Australia to be an Olympic Torch bearer.

Like their Senior counterparts, Nippers participate in regular competition against other Surf Lifesaving Clubs, at sports carnivals.

Yet the cinder-block Noosa Heads Surf Lifesaving Club still stands proudly amid million-dollar beachfront homes.

He is the chairman of Freshfood Australia Holdings, and was the president of Surf Lifesaving Australia from 1984 to 2002.

The Apollo Bay SLSC became the ninth club to be affiliated with Surf Lifesaving Victoria.

In 1970, having been the Queensland delegate to the National Council of Surf Lifesaving, Weldon was approached to form an international lifesaving group.

It is patrolled for 6 months of the year by Surf Lifesaving Queensland, and has a stinger net to protect swimmers from box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri).

The spiritual home of Surf Lifesaving, the Bondi event, which was held at the family-friendly north end, was one a few Sydney beaches that held a series race.

The Worser Bay Surf Lifesaving Club was founded in 1910, competing in the many surf lifesaving events around the country.

Eurocopter BO105 CBS-5 is currently under contract with Queensland Police Service and Surf Lifesaving Queensland, being based out of Carrara.

In a fourteen-year period there were 660 Irukandji stings in Australia, which were recorded by Dr Fenner, a medical officer with Surf Lifesaving Australia.

In 2011, he became Chairman of the Sunshine Coast Sports Federation and Chairman of the Bid Committee 2016 Australian Surf Lifesaving Championships, Sunshine Coast.

IRBs have been used for all forms of surf rescue, retrieval, and service by Surf Lifesaving in New Zealand, Australia, and Del Mar, California since the late 1980s.

After the pylon was restored, it was painted in the Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club colours, but it was soon changed to the colours of North Cottesloe Lifesaving Club.

The Apollo Bay Surf Lifesaving Club was established in 1952 as a result of a meeting held on the foreshore by interested townspeople and Surf Lifesaving Victoria officials.

In 2006 he won the Australian Lifeguard of the year award, and has recently picked up 2 Gold medals at the Australian Surf Lifesaving titles in the Double Ski and the Board Paddle.

Of note is Hurst's swimming ability, he won his eighth Open Mens Surf title from nine starts, solidifying in many experts mind that he is the greatest surf swimmer the sport of Surf Lifesaving has ever produced.

In 1956 prior to the advent of WLS, as part of the 1956 Olympic Games celebrations Surf Lifesaving Australia (a founding member of WLS) hosted an International Lifesaving Championships at Torquay Beach in which teams from several countries competed against each other.

Between the Flags: 100 Years of Surf Lifesaving: developed in conjunction with Surf Lifesaving Australia, this exhibition celebrated the centenary of surf lifesaving in Australia (December 2006 - March 2007)

The Coolgaree nippers club is the first indigenous club in Surf Lifesaving Queensland; Coolgaree is affiliated to Arcadian surf lifesaving club in the first year of the nippers club operating (1999) juvenile crime rates on Palm Island dropped from 186 offences to 99.