It's such a pleasure to watch the
Sorrento Surf Life Saving Club during a training session. They're so dedicated and enthusiastic, you can't help get caught up in the positive vibes! So here's how it works..they take their 'target' a little off shore and throw him overboard with great gusto, turn the boat and scream towards the shore, whirl it around and head back out to where he's convincingly playing 'in trouble'..They haul him on board and would normally get him back to shore pronto and start with whatever procedures are necessary to revive him... however as this is a training session..
they head back to shore, but before they get there they dump him overboard again and zoom off leaving him to raise his hand in the distress signal and wait for rescue No. 2 by surf board.....
Cue the lifesaver who heads out on her board through the waves to perform the rescue..reaching her target, she proceeds to haul him onto the board, which didn't look that easy, as, let's put it this way, he wasn't a lightweight!
Once she had him safely 'on board' she climbed up behind him and started kicking for shore.. success. Of course it's all so much easier when the weather conditions are good and the 'casualty' is probably cracking jokes all the way back to shore.....They do an award winning job in sometimes horrendous conditions, so in my books all praise to them. Happy Tuesday.....btw is anyone else having problems with the CDP forum page, I haven't been able to get it up for two days now?
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