A summary of the weekend's activity at the Surf Life Saving Northern Region's beaches this weekend.
Weekend Summary
It was an extremely busy weekend for incidents around the Auckland area, with a considerable number of rescues on the
West Coast on Saturday 13 January. Up and down the west coast (Muriwai to Sunset) Volunteer clubs extended patrol hours
due to the dangerous conditions caused by an strong swell and the evening heat.
Conditions were hard to manage but the Volunteers went above and beyond to keep the public safe.
· Muriwai had 14 rescues and 15 assists as well as 3 major first aids, they also extended their volunteer patrol till
7pm to cope with the above-average visitor populations that evening (head count of 1260 on beach/300 in the water at
6pm)
· Karekare also had a mammoth day: 9 rescued and 30 assisted.
· Sunset also had high visitor numbers and performed 1 rescue and 9 assists.
· Orewa had 3 major first aids
Our Support Services roaming Jetski (Support 1) performed 3 rescues and 2 assists. And performed 92 preventative actions
involving 1000 people.
Attached are the stats for the weekend:
Weekend Ending 13th & 14th Jan
No. of people rescued
70
No. of people assisted
149
No. of major 1st aids
24
No. of minor 1st aids
42
No. of searches
51
No. of PA's
2659
No. of Public Involved
7528
Peak headcount
18041
Total hours worked
2676.5