As Lifeguards

As the title suggests, whilst we may compete in Surf Life-Saving events and enjoy a good night out occasionally, our real purpose is, is to SAVE lives, and to achieve this we do two things;

Firstly we patrol Aberdeen beach, on weekends during the summer months. With increasing resources due to generous local and national sponsorships, we are able to patrol the whole of Aberdeen beach using our Inflatable rescue boat and a host of rescue boards and skis, offering a full Beach Life Guard Service. All club members on patrol are qualified to NARS Beach Lifeguard standards, and we take our duties very seriously. This has become even more of an issue, since the City Council withdrew their official Beach Life-Guard Service.
We have assessed all of Aberdeen beach for risks which you can read about in our Beach Risk Assessment.

Secondly we train up anybody who wishes to qualify as a Beach Lifeguard or just wishes to know more about the things we do. We run training on a Monday night from 6.30 which is working towards achieving the full Beach Lifeguard award which means you can work as a Beach Lifeguard anywhere in the world. Although why you'd want to swap the delights of Aberdeen beach for Bondi, is beyond us. We also train for driving the Inflatable rescue boat, VHF radio qualifications, advanced resuscitation amongst other qualifications.

If you want to train as a Beach Lifeguard or get more information, please get in touch, as we are not only always on the look-out for new members, but also the more people that are trained in these essential skills, hopefully the lower the number of accidental drownings there will be.