Rips are the hidden danger most beachgoers can't identify. Lifeguards mark them out with dangerous current signs, but often they're ignored. So Terry conducts an experiment with stickers.
Reidy was an overweight kid who didn't grow up surfing. Today he's overcome harsh criticism to become a lifeguard; meanwhile, up at the tower a BMX rider has a fractured cheek and broken nose.
Today is the lifeguard challenge, and while Max and Jesse should be putting out marker buoys for the race course, things only go from bad to worse when Jesse gets a buoy rope caught in the jetski.
Over the past six years lifeguards on Bondi have caught thieves, treated heart attacks, made drug busts, broken up fights, and even handled a navy bomb that washed ashore.
Lifeguards must rescue a surfer being smashed against cliffs in huge seas. The Jet Ski can?t get close enough, and a rescue board would be deadly. Can Bacon and Whippet save the surfer?
A man with a deep stab wound to his leg is unable to tell Terry and Deano just how it happened; and, following a collision, a body surfer is brought to shore with no feeling in his arms or legs.
The surf club rescue boat has a spectacular 'upside-down? collision with a reef. And even morphine can't stop an 11 year old boy's painful howls, when he suffers a mystery stomach illness.
Snoop Dogg hits the stage for New Year's celebrations on Bondi. Lifeguards arrive at 5 am and are soon rescuing partygoers from rips, including one girl who loses consciousness and needs oxygen.