After two years of closed borders and La Nina rains, Bondi is back open for business. Lifeguards haven't dealt with big crowds for a while so when 30,010 beach goers descend on Bondi on Christmas Day, they are on high alert.
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New team members are thrown in the deep end when a series of monster waves land on Bondi. Boo and Lachie battle the dangerous conditions as they embark upon a mass rescue.
The Rooster NRL team go surfing with lifeguards, but run over Yatesy on a rescue board, breaking his ribs and puncturing his lung. Quinn attends to a teenage girl with a broken nose and shattered vanity. A rescue proves difficult when Luke learns his female patient is deaf.
After two years of closed borders and La Nina rains, Bondi is back open for business. Lifeguards haven't dealt with big crowds for a while so when 30,010 beach goers descend on Bondi on Christmas Day, they are on high alert.
A surfer seeks refuge at the tower from an angry beachgoer, requiring lifeguards to maintain public safety until police arrive. Colorful characters visit the beach, including Spiderman and Green Goblin. The annual lifeguard race has the participating teams getting highly competitive.
In the most powerful episode ever, two people from the same family drown. The remaining family members watch as lifeguards attempt to resuscitate them, marking a crisis not faced by lifeguards since 1939.
A typical Bondi summer with the apprehension of perverts and bag thieves. Trainee Dylan impresses with a double-rescue. However, everything changes with the arrival of COVID as Bondi is locked down for the first time since WWII.
Bra Boy Jesse rescues a vicious rat from the skate bowl, lifeguards play detectives after a punch-up in the surf break, and Harries swims more than a kilometre out to sea. None of this is in the lifeguard manual, but the boys tackle it with lifeguard ingenuity and a healthy dose of humour.
A group of monks go missing on Bondi. Lachie rescues, then loses hold of, a young Norwegian who girl who sinks in front of him. A blue bottle sting on a 38 year old tourist becomes an anaphylactic shock and serious medical emergency. A young cancer patient gets to become a 'lifeguard for the day'.
Bondi reopens after its first closure since World War II. A paraglider crashes into the water, prompting a lifeguard rescue. Mario attempts to fix the lifeguard buggy. New lifeguard Max performs his first rescue. Bondi lifeguards bond and celebrate milestones in the tower.
Jesse responds to a report of a man falling from cliffs. The situation takes a tragic twist when the police chopper arrives. A thick fog makes it impossible to see swimmers in the water. Harries introduces new technology to the rescue service, but not everyone is convinced by the product.
Santa brings the South Pole to Bondi with the wettest Christmas day in 72 years, as Beardy rescues someone unexpected in atrocious conditions. A seizure on the sand challenges Kerrbox. The attitude of a new trainee raises concerns among some of the Bondi Lifeguards.
Newbie Max paddles 600 metres to reach a lone swimmer treading water near shark nets. Lifeguards attend to skate park injuries, and newbie Tyson tests his skate skills with a pro. Lifeguards Jackson and John both attend to a woman struggling in the surf.
Lifeguard 'Harries' plans to propose to girlfriend Emily high above Bondi in a chopper, and needs the team to make a huge 'Marry Me' sign in the sand. But in the lead up Kerrbox throws a spanner in the works, putting blue paint in Harries' spray tan.
Tragedy unfolds as a Chinese backpacker is left comatose after-hours. A father loses his son in a massive crowd. Lifeguards struggle communicating with the distressed Cambodian man. Former ironman Kailan Collins shares the details of his rare injury for the first time in seventeen years.
Australia sees an unprecedented number of drownings amid the hottest summer on record. Lifeguard Corey rescues Iggy, who has swallowed a significant amount of water and requires an ambulance. Ivan from China ventures 200m offshore wearing a life jacket.
The biggest mass rescue at Bondi in years sees over 40 swimmers in trouble, the beach closed and lifeguards stretched to their limits. Former pro surfer Nicola Atherton is the 4th ever female lifeguard to join the team. She finds herself on the frontline of a mass rescue.
A boy goes missing in the water. As lifeguards search desperately, the boy's mother breaks down convinced her son has drowned. At the south end a man screams in pain from a dislocated hip, but lifeguards Beardy and Harrison are taken by surprise when the man's friend has a seizure just metres away.
A man with a deep stab wound to his leg is unable to tell Terry and Deano just how it happened. Following a collision, a bodysurfer is brought to shore with no feeling in his arms or legs. And Yatesy looks for the parents of a three year old boy sporting an enormous mullet hair cut.
62-year-old lifeguard Harry faces the risk of losing his job as he competes against younger colleagues in a fitness test, thieves face a violent citizens arrest and lifeguards are startled by the frantic search of a mother calling for her daughter, Jennifer.
Despite being an overweight kid without a surfing background, Reidy has overcome harsh criticism to become a lifeguard, setting his sights on a world record. Lifeguards must rescue a girl blown kilometres out to sea on a paddle board. A BMX rider has a fractured cheek and broken nose.
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