Bondi Rescue

It's the start of summer and the lifeguards are trying out for a job on the busiest beach in the world. Two and a half million people will visit Bondi over the next few months - up to 50,000 people on any one-day. The season gets off to a dramatic start as race riots on nearby Cronulla Beach threaten to spill over to Bondi. A shark scare only adds to the drama. For a while the beach is bizarrely quiet, then all hell breaks loose when nineteen year-old Natalie suddenly collapses in the water for no apparent reason. Her rescue and hospitalisation is a major incident on Bondi.(Summary from Ten.com.au - Permission granted)

It's Christmas Day and the swell sends shivers up the back of the Lifeguards as they set up the beach in the morning. They know that tourists, alcohol and surf are a dangerous mix. With at least 10,000 overseas travellers due on the beach the Lifeguards expect to be flat out rescuing revellers who will have been drinking since mid-morning. Irish tourist Michelle is more than a little embarrassed when chief lifeguard Hoppo rescues her from the water. Meanwhile a teenager has broken his arm in the nearby skate ramp. Getting him out proves a difficult problem.(Summary from Ten.com.au - Permission granted)

Few parties get bigger than the New Year�s Eve dance party at Bondi as over 5,000 revellers dance in the New Year until 6 am. The Lifeguards are flat out on New Years Day as they attend drug and alcohol affected partygoers on the beach. An ecstacy overdose and a surfer�s severely dislocated shoulder are among the most serious cases. To make matters worse Bondi experiences one of the hottest days on record as the thermometer hovers above 45 degrees and everyone wilts in the heat. A line of ambulances are called down to the beach. But the heat doesn�t stop the thieves?(Summary from Ten.com.au - Permission granted)

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.

Rookie Lifeguard Blake faces his first big physical test when he takes part in an underwater training race. The lifeguard team run a relay carrying weights five hundred metres underwater with Blake on one team and Brooke, the first fulltime female lifeguard, on the other. Being a former Iron Woman, Brooke seems much more at home in the water than the rookie from Penrith.A grand mother is frantic when her two grand daughters go missing in the water on a busy day at Bondi. And the fun and festivity of Christmas Day is put on hold as two drowning swimmers are plucked from a rip.The rite of passage continues for Reidy - having proved himself last year he faces the final hurdle that will lift him to top level lifeguard status...big surf. All eyes are on him as he paddles into some of the biggest waves of summer.(Summary from Ten.com.au - Permission granted)

Bondi�s first full time female lifeguard Brooke discovers what it means to work at the world�s busiest beach as she conducts a string of rescues and an emergency call has lifeguards rushing to the cliffs at North Bondi where a man lies unconscious on the rocks after a 40 metre fall.On New Years Day, lifeguards attend late party-goers who are dehydrated and hung-over. Whippet and Bobby try convincing Kerrbox to tackle his fear of heights with a ride on the dreaded slingshot.(Summary from Ten.com.au - Permission granted)

As summer starts to heat up most Australians are winding down at work and getting ready to break for the year. For lifeguards it’s the busiest time of the year, as they gear up for holiday crowds, heat waves, and drunken revellers. The Bondi summer hits overdrive when hordes of reckless teenagers pour onto the beach and into the surf. With so many kids and so few lifeguards it isn’t long before tragedy strikes. 18 year old Stephanie was swimming with friends when she hit her head on a sandbank. She is pulled from the water unconscious, and not breathing. Immediately lifeguards begin resuscitating her. The dangers of the surf are also experienced by a beginner surfer from England who is washed up the rocks, breaking his ankle in two places. With lifeguards already overstretched, two men make matters worse by pretending to drowning in front of Deano while he is doing a rescue. Police are called to escort them off the beach. The silly season brings all and sundry to Bondi. When a man in a three-piece wedding suit (complete with tails), is found roaming the sand drinking, smoking, and harassing beachgoers he too finds himself red carded from Bondi until he is sobered up. If the early stages of summer are anything to go by, lifeguards Whippet, Deano, Hoppo and Box are all in for a busy season. But the boys in blue wouldn’t want it any other way. Bondi is back in all it’s glory, madness, and brilliance!

18 year-old trainee Max is now in his third year, of what was expected to be, a 1-2 year traineeship. Last year he was passed over for a fully fledged position when fellow trainee got the jump on him after one year in the same junior role. Now a new trainee is on the block, and Max now faces a do-or-die season. His rival Jake Nolan, is also one of his best mates - the two of them surf and train together, as well as hang-out after hours. When Head lifeguard Hoppo gives them the hard and fast facts that there can only be one man left standing at the end of he year, the relationship quickly changes, and the race begins! Maxy's opening gambit is the rescue of an uncle and daughter from Mauritius. Jake replies with a rescue in the southern corner of the beach. Meanwhile the rest of the team stay busy dealing with a 3 pronged onslaught; a British tourist with a dislocated shoulder, a Sydney events organiser with a suspected spinal injury, and a flurry of people stung by blue bottles. Then in true Bondi style - lifeguards spot Hugh Grant walking past the lifeguard tower. Maxy and Jake have little time to take notice, as they demonstrate their skills to senior lifeguards. Their commitment is commendable, but they should keep in mind it's a long season ahead on Bondi Beach.

On the first sunny day, the Jet Ski is overrun by drowning tourists. One man falls off the rescue mat unnoticed and appears certain to drown.

Snoop Dogg hits the stage for New Year's celebrations on Bondi. Lifeguards arrive at 5 am and are soon rescuing partygoers from rips, including one girl who loses consciousness and needs oxygen.

The surf club rescue boat has a spectacular 'upside-down? collision with a reef. And even morphine can't stop an 11 year old boy's painful howls, when he suffers a mystery stomach illness.

The lifeguards are devastated when one of their own is severely injured in a surfing accident. While Kobi recovers, the rest of the boys continue their training for the annual Iron Man Challenge.

Santa comes to Bondi and he's brought the South Pole with him. It is the wettest Christmas day in seventy two years. Meanwhile, a seizure on the sand turns pear-shaped.

It's New Year's Day and in the afternoon the crowd peaks at over 40,000 people keen to wash away the hangover, but then every swimmer's greatest fear - a shark is spotted.

Tonight, we get an inside look at the quest to find a young man that went missing off Bondi Beach in November, marking the first Bondi drowning in nearly a decade.

Witness the biggest mass rescue in years as the lifeguards are stretched to their limits. Overwhelmed, Hoppo makes the momentous decision to sound the shark alarm to clear the water and close the beach.

For the first time ever, the lifeguards treat a teenager suffering anaphylactic shock. Meanwhile, an injury in the skate bowl sees Jesse invent a new rescue technique - the human ladder.

A miscommunication between lifeguards leads to panic as they search for a swimmer lost in the surf. Plus, lifeguards sound the alarm and clear thousands of frantic swimmers from shark infested water.

When Matt Dee is on the beach, the good, the bad, the ugly and the downright weird take place. Plus, a woman is found lifeless between the flags, not breathing and without a pulse.

First-year trainee Jethro James is a 19-year-old surfer from nearby Clovelly. The deep-thinker has a cheeky side but don't be fooled: he is serious about his lifeguarding career.

In the 11th season of the hit reality series, the boys and girl in blue, encounter bag thieves, street hoodlums, drug abuse and alcohol. They deal with sharks, resuscitations, cuts, broken bones, and thousands of rescues. For a few lifeguards, this is a first-time experience.

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 advise to Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull.

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.

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.

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 heat waves, bag thieves, street hoodlums, sharks, cuts, broken bones and countless rescues.

Jessie rescues an American tourist from relatively calm waters, which results in a CPR effort from not just the lifeguards, but also paramedics and the Jewish Medical Response team.

The lifeguards take the beach buggy into the streets as they chase down an aggressive beachgoer wielding a knife.

When monster waves lash Bondi, new team members Boo and trainee Lachie must tackle the dangerous conditions to complete a mass rescue.

With guest Gyton Grantley, plus guest host Fifi Box, and stories on switching off phobias, the author whose plot is echoed in a new blockbuster, supermarket milk prices, and Ukraine surrogacy.

Lifeguards must rescue a surfer being smashed against cliffs in huge seas. The Jet Ski can’t get close enough, and a rescue board would be deadly. Can Bacon and Whippet save the surfer?

Australia's east coast has been devastated by drought and fires. While the fires continue to blaze, the smoke impacts the lifeguards' visibility, quality of air, and their ability to protect beachgoers.

As Australia’s bushfires decimate thousands of houses, and millions of animals Maxi fights on two fronts - splitting time between lifeguarding and firefighting. On the shoreline an Iranian tourist is pulled in unresponsive. Her sister translates as lifeguards try to determine if they're treating a spinal, a drowning or a head injury. Harries faces his own language barrier during a rescue when he can’t understand an Irish tourist’s thick brogue.

Christmas and New Year's means lifeguards are overwhelmed with crowds and the dangerous combination of partying and swimming. There's drunk bathers, teen overdoses, and hundreds of rescues.

It's been a year like no other at Bondi Beach. Beach marshals work with the lifeguards to check numbers and enforce social distancing, but it's a challenge the lifeguards are only too keen to accept.

Where is the safest place to be when you're at the beach during a lightning storm?

One Bondi lifeguard does a rescue 500 meters out from the shore line! Is this the longest board rescue ever?

After two years of closed borders, Bondi is back to it’s busy best and the lifeguards have their work cut out for them as international and interstate visitors return to the world’s most famous beach.

Harries is reminded of his mother when he meets a group of children from war torn Ukraine. Jack and Azza race to the aid of a young surfer on the beach who insists he hasn’t even been in the water.

As the day closes, a swimmer struggles in the water. Without a rescue board, Chappo sprints down the beach and dives into the water. Bagus bares it all in a nude photo shoot with thousands of people.

Lifeguards try to resuscitate a lifeless man found face down in the surf. And Reidy's back.

It's the busiest day in a decade for Bondi lifeguards, with more than one hundred rescues.

A surfer suffers a serious fin chop and Will attempts to run for 48 hours with no sleep.