On Sunday, 6 February, 1938, an event occurred at Bondi Beach in Australia, when five people drowned, and hundreds were rescued, after a series of four tremendous waves. There were still around 30,000 people on the beach in the mid-afternoon, and several hundred in the surf. Can you imagine how it was dangerous event? This event caused by tremendous waves, which created a backwash so strong that it make many bathers be into a rip current.
At that time, about 70 lifesavers were there by chance thanks to competition. If it happened now, they would use IRB, and they could rescue patients easily. But, such a technique hadn't improved then, so they had used rescue reel, surf boats, surf skis, and rubber floats. Many patients had caught one lifeline and lifesavers had pulled that. Lifesavers had not got any rests they only kept going, and many panic bathers made rescue more difficult, because they grabbed onto lifesavers or other patients.
One lifesaver, Arthur Elm, said like following. "Some of the men seemed to go mad. I was trying to take the belt to a youngster who was right out, but I didn't get the chance. As I went by, dozens yelled for help and tried to grab me. I told them to hang onto the rope as soon as I had got it out, but they didn't wait... I didn't think I had a chance when they all came at me. One grabbed me round the neck, two others caught me by one arm, another held me round the waist, and another one seized my leg. I hit the man who had me round the neck. I managed to get in on his chin, and he let go. I had to do it. But for that I would have been drowned myself, and some of the others too. " In addition to his talk, club captain, Carl Jeppesen, later said, ‘but for the fact that there were so many lifesavers on the beach, many more would have been drowned'.
By all reports, the water was clear of bathers within about 15 minutes, but the resuscitation work on the beach went on for much longer. You can know that lifesavers must not stop, must keep on working. At the end of the day, dozens had been successfully resuscitated, two were recovering in
hospital, and four were known to be dead.
The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia(SLSA) granted a special Meritorious Award to Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club on behalf of the work of its members. And now, when someone want to be lifesaver or get lifesaver's licence, they learn about Black Sunday incident as brave activity of lifesavers at first.
reference page(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi_Beach,_New_South_Wales)
One lifesaver, Arthur Elm, said like following. "Some of the men seemed to go mad. I was trying to take the belt to a youngster who was right out, but I didn't get the chance. As I went by, dozens yelled for help and tried to grab me. I told them to hang onto the rope as soon as I had got it out, but they didn't wait... I didn't think I had a chance when they all came at me. One grabbed me round the neck, two others caught me by one arm, another held me round the waist, and another one seized my leg. I hit the man who had me round the neck. I managed to get in on his chin, and he let go. I had to do it. But for that I would have been drowned myself, and some of the others too. " In addition to his talk, club captain, Carl Jeppesen, later said, ‘but for the fact that there were so many lifesavers on the beach, many more would have been drowned'.
By all reports, the water was clear of bathers within about 15 minutes, but the resuscitation work on the beach went on for much longer. You can know that lifesavers must not stop, must keep on working. At the end of the day, dozens had been successfully resuscitated, two were recovering in
hospital, and four were known to be dead.
The Surf Life Saving Association of Australia(SLSA) granted a special Meritorious Award to Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club on behalf of the work of its members. And now, when someone want to be lifesaver or get lifesaver's licence, they learn about Black Sunday incident as brave activity of lifesavers at first.
reference page(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi_Beach,_New_South_Wales)
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