HUT2HUT – Hayle SLSC Event
What is it? A 4.6km mixed discipline event across the stretch of beach covered by the Hayle Towans, Mexico, Beachside and Upton Towans lifeguard huts (hence the name!) Competitors will board paddle 1.5km from Hayle SLSC to the beach in front of Beachside Lifeguard hut, where they will leave their boards and re enter the […]
Voluntary SLSGB Surf Life Saving Teams have a busy Easter
Over the Easter bank holiday weekend SLSGB volunteer patrols reported a total of 17 people who were assisted by SLSGB lifeguards. On Saturday there were 8 individuals rescued between Holywell Bay and St. Agnes. At St. Agnes, club members on a private boat who had departed from Trevaunance Cove at around 1pm to go surfing […]
Bude SLSC need your support!
Bude Surf Life Saving Club and the Bude Cleaner Seas Project, as a partnership, have been invited to submit a second stage application to the Coastal Communities Fund for a grant to build a new Surf Life Saving and Environmental Centre on the current Bude SLSC site. If successful, it will mean a […]
Teignmouth SLSC Lifesavers Involved In Challenging Rescue
At 8am on Sunday 29th July, Glen Mayhew was assessing sea conditions to see if it was safe for Teignmouth Beach SLSC to run their training session. Whilst doing so Glen witnessed two men jump from the sea wall into what was rough seas with waves of up to 6ft crashing down. Dominic Round then arrived […]
Crawley Town SLSGB Pool Champs Cardiff
Crawley Town Life Saving Club confirmed its status as the country’s top competitive pool lifesaving team when winning the SLS-GB Open Pool Championships last weekend at Cardiff to add to their current RLSS-UK and Welsh-SLS titles. At the end of the Championships Crawley Town were just under a 100 points ahead of second place Leeds […]
Voluntary lifeguards seeking contact with old members and friends
Volunteer lifeguards from Exmouth Beach Rescue Club are celebrating a milestone anniversary this year – 30 years of voluntary lifesaving service on Exmouth beach. The charity, established in 1986 to keep beach users safe in the absence of a full time lifeguard service, is planning a get together in May 2016. Members, supporters, sponsors, friends […]
WHO WANTS TO BE A FLOODIE? (Also known as Surf Life Saving Devon Flood Resilience Unit or DFRU)
What’s a Floodie?December 2015. Nine of us are qualified now to assist in flood rescues anywhere in the country with about 36 hours’ notice. None of us is quite sure why we have volunteered for all this. We had to attend one day initial training followed by two weekends learning knots, wading and getting washed […]