Bondi Rescue

It's Christmas day on Bondi and Santa make an appearance. Maxy tries his hand at cooking a turkey and a chinese tourist is dragged from the water barely conscious.

For lifeguards it’s the busiest time of the year, as they gear up for holiday crowds, heat waves, and drunken revellers.

Summer is coming to an end. The light is changing and the days are becoming shorter. But while the massive crowds may have backed off a little, the blue bottles haven’t.

The clash of the local surf tribes in the Buckler to Bra surf contest and the surrounding mayhem make for an interesting day at the beach.

The chilling events that lead to the evening that changed Bondi forever. Was it the weather? Was it the fish? Or was just plain bad luck?

At 17, trainee lifeguard Trent Maxwell is the youngest on the team and at 59, Harry Nightingale is Bondi's oldest lifeguard. Both are expected to participate in the lifeguard iron man race.

An incident in the skate bowl leaves one kid with a head injury and barely conscious.

Beach goers plan their visits to Bondi around hot and sunny days, but often they get a lot more than they bargain for. A heat wave has hit Sydney and bathers are, in the words of lifeguards, "dropping like flies".

A frantic day test the skills of new lifeguards. Tragedy in the water: Young Troy faces our lifeguards toughest challenge.

Second year trainee Maxi is hoping this will be the year he earns his stripes as a fully fledged lifeguard.