For the better part of 70 years, Claude Jeanneret has been keeping Surfers Paradise beach safe. As another patrol season starts, Surf Life Saving Australia has released its latest 'alarming' drowning statistics.
Claude Jeanneret joined the Surfers Paradise Surf Life Saving Club as a teenager during WWII when they needed strong swimmers to keep the beach safe.
As one of the busiest beaches in Queensland, it's no surprise Surfers Paradise is one of the country's most storied surf clubs."I'm nearly as old as Surfers Paradise itself," Mr Jeanneret laughed."In life, you have acquaintances, friends, and mates and everybody I know in surf lifesaving is a mate."This weekend thousands of clubbies dressed in their iconic red and yellow uniforms return to the beach for the start of the patrol season.
Volunteers at Broadbeach Surf Lifesaving Club on the Gold Coast are ready for the start of the patrol season this weekend.A quarter of the people who drowned in Australia last summer did so between Christmas and New Year. Experts say the mixture of school holidays, time off and alcohol make it a particularly risky time for swimming.
He was most worried by the dramatic increase in rescues and drownings more than 1 kilometre away from the flags.
Surfers Paradise Gold Coast Volunteering Coastal Safety Report Drownings Beach Rescue History
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