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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's what a hero hopo saving lives.

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Speaker 2: Well, you were just saying, just when you just arrived

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Speaker 2: there before we put the mics on, that you we

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Speaker 2: should be teaching people how to survive rips.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, your microphone's not working.

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Speaker 1: Hang on hear.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we're going to hear now.

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Speaker 2: So tell us about there.

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Speaker 1: Well, the rips are pretty much ninety percent of rips.

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Speaker 1: If you float, we'll take your cross to the sandbank

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Speaker 1: or where the waves are breaking.

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Speaker 2: So if you float, as opposed to what struggle.

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Speaker 1: Trying to swim, So everyone I go to rescue try

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Speaker 1: and swim. So when they're trying swim, they swim back

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Speaker 1: into the rip. But if they float and go with

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Speaker 1: the flow of the water, you don't have to rescue

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Speaker 1: them because I'll get themselves to safety. And we've been

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Speaker 1: pushing this campaign now float to survive.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting because I think I would have assumed

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Speaker 2: if I just float, I'll end in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: No, that's right, We'll see most of the rips are

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Speaker 1: just go around in a circle on itself. So the

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Speaker 1: waves come in, the water comes in, and that water

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Speaker 1: has got to move back out. So just moves sort of.

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Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't go all the way out the sea,

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Speaker 1: just goes back on to where the surfers are sitting

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Speaker 1: and lining up, so pretty much it's a ride. Really.

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Speaker 1: Kids are starting to enjoy it. We're putting them into

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Speaker 1: rips and they're enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: Kids get in this rip, enjoy dumb question, how do

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Speaker 2: you know when you're in a rip what's happening?

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Speaker 1: So when you're in a rip, you'll start see yourself

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Speaker 1: moving and you'll sort of be moving away from the shore.

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Speaker 1: But that's the theory. Everyone thought that you'll end up

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Speaker 1: way out to sea, but all our rescues are about

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Speaker 1: twenty meters from the shore.

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Speaker 3: And you know all those stories of people that get

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Speaker 3: washed out by a freak wave, which could be really unsettling.

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Speaker 3: And the thing is not to panic, and that's so

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Speaker 3: hard to say, don't panic.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, and that's why we're trying to teach

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Speaker 1: people now to floats so they stay calm. So when

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Speaker 1: you're calm, you can then think about what you're going

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Speaker 1: to do. You can yell out to someone and it

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Speaker 1: makes it a lot easier to sort of stay in control.

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Speaker 2: How has this year been or last year. It's hard

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Speaker 2: to remember. Remember we actually had to close the beach.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't that seem extraordinary when we look at it now.

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Speaker 2: One guy, I remember that guy in his Bondi speedo's

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Speaker 2: got wrestled to the ground by police because he dared

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Speaker 2: to go for a swim.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, it's that's only a year ago now

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Speaker 1: coming up over the next couple of weeks. So, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's amazing what we went through with the beach closed

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Speaker 1: for five weeks. You know, it's something I haven't seen

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Speaker 1: in my career.

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Speaker 2: And in terms of them not being as many international visitors,

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Speaker 2: what kind of rescues are you doing this year? Then?

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Speaker 1: Well, surprising, you know, we still are doing rescues, not

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Speaker 1: as many as normal, but we've found that probably sixty

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Speaker 1: five percent of our rescues are Australian born or Australian residents.

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Speaker 1: It's just that sometimes that they've come from overseas, so

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Speaker 1: they've got the you know, the Asian background or the

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Speaker 1: European background, so we think that, oh, they must be

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Speaker 1: a tourist. But you know a lot of the times

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Speaker 1: they are living here.

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Speaker 2: And they're not talked to swim like we are. When

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Speaker 2: we're kids exactly.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's right, haven't got the experience from from how

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Speaker 1: we've grown ups has.

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Speaker 3: Changed to like I go down the beach a bit

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Speaker 3: and you see the nippers these days in my day

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Speaker 3: that your mum and daddy just chake you out of

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Speaker 3: the beach and then leave you for six hours and

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Speaker 3: they go and have lived their life. Now you've got

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Speaker 3: to hang around there all day. So you see parents

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Speaker 3: sort of hanging around and what's happened. And they've condensed

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Speaker 3: all that, so the nippers doesn't go as long as

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Speaker 3: it used to, No.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't. They've had to go into sections now and

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Speaker 1: especially with COVID, it's even worse. You know, there ain't

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Speaker 1: allowed a certain amount of kids on the beach at

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Speaker 1: one time, so it has made it a lot a

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Speaker 1: lot different.

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Speaker 3: And they don't get chucked in rips, they don't get

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Speaker 3: sunburned anymore. Now.

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Speaker 1: I remember coming down to Bronze Dad. He was one

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Speaker 1: of those hard asses from the country and it used

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Speaker 1: to be massive and I just go no not, he

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Speaker 1: just make me go out and no matter how big

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Speaker 1: it was. Whereas now yeah, that's it's quite controlled and

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Speaker 1: they don't put him out in big surf anymore.

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Speaker 3: What's going to happen if these kids become future life guards.

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Speaker 2: And they've never been in a book, I can't rescue.

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Speaker 3: What's going to happen?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that could be a bit of a drama.

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Speaker 3: That could be a giant's right, Bob, It's always great

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Speaker 3: to see you can catch our BONDI Rescue seven thirty

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Speaker 3: tonight on Channel ten. Look after yourself.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having nice to see you.

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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda's Nation