Life savers teach beach safety

Eight Ocean Beach Surf Life Saving Club life savers participated in an education program with Surf Lifesaving NSW called Beach to Bush from Monday, November 5, to Friday, November 9.

The aim of the program was to promote safety to people who visited beaches.

Statistics showed that people who live 50km or more away from the Coast account for half of all drownings and that 80 per cent of problems are caused by rips, according to Ocean Beach club publicity officer Ms Louise Lambeth.

Beach to Bush teaches primary school children in an interactive and fun way how to recognise dangers at the beach and how to stay safe.

The Central Coast teams, which included Ocean Beach Surf Life Saving Club members Richard and Mary Grimmond, Peter and Louise Lambeth and their 12-year-old daughter Isobel and Toni and Anthony Jones, went as far away as Griffith, ACT and the Blue Mountains where they gave 13 presentations in the week.

The children learnt about sun safety, safe places to swim, to swim with a friend, how to signal for help, what makes waves, rips, rescue methods, the creatures of the sea and how to treat injuries and where to go to seek help.

Online submission, 17 Nov 2012

Louise Lambeth, Ocean Beach Surf Life Saving Club