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S4.E1 ∙ Episode #4.1

Mon, Feb 09, 2009

With the day starting off with a crowd up to 20.000 people; bluebottles and a suspected spinal injury cause even more mayhem. With crowds this crazy, lifeguards change from saving lives in the water to saving lives on the beach. Sharks are now added to the mix as well and an unnecessary shark alarm makes lifeguards frustrated.

8.9 /10

S4.E2 ∙ Episode #4.2

Mon, Feb 16, 2009

It's Christmas on Bondi Beach and the local homeless guy Ben fell off the rocks and suspects he has a broken leg, but doesn't realize he has quite some bad burns as well. This year Santa arrives on jet ski and has banned junk food as a gift, so he comes bearing fruits. Alcohol is in fact banned from Bondi Beach but with so much going on, the lifeguards can't attend to everything. But many tourists find out alcohol and swimming is a dangerous combination. English tourist Eddie dislocates his finger in the surf, but without travel insurance he rather tries to put is back himself than go to hospital. When a lost kid who doesn't speak English winds up at the tower, Christmas day is officially over-booked.

7.1 /10

S4.E3 ∙ Episode #4.3

Sun, Feb 22, 2009

It's the day before the New Year and Paris Hilton brings a visit. The morning after the night before people still suffer from all the alcohol and the drugs. There is a group of underage drinkers and they go from being brought to the hospital for almost drowning to being arrested and going to the police station.

8.7 /10

S4.E4 ∙ Episode #4.4

Mon, Mar 02, 2009

The day starts off with a missing child; left in front of lifeguards thinking that they would watch her. But as it turns out; lifeguards are not babysitters. As usual; Bondi is popular under bag thieves, luckily the tower has equipped a surveillance camera this year. Not a lot of water rescues today; but there is a lost dog, a lost man with learning difficulties and again a bag thief.

8.8 /10

S4.E5 ∙ Episode #4.5

Mon, Mar 09, 2009

Dunstan (Dunno) is the new trainee this season and is thrown right into the deep end; a man with a dislocated shoulder and a suspected spinal injury just a few minutes after each other. When a guy with a deep cut is added to that, Dunstan is on his own. When all the commotion is over two boys who have been assaulted come to the tower, but did they find the right guy? The whole team watches as Dunstan makes his first rescue (twice).

8.7 /10

S4.E6 ∙ Episode #4.6

Mon, Mar 16, 2009

Maxi rescues a young girl who is not used to the Australian ocean. A mass rescue is starting, but as fast as it started, it is also over. A boy is dragged form the surf by his friends. He remains conscious, but complaints of pain makes the lifeguards suspect a spinal injury.

8.2 /10

S4.E7 ∙ Episode #4.7

Mon, Mar 23, 2009

Possible new lifeguards try to prove that they are the right material for the job. Troy is allowed to come back for a second year while Adriel (Bacon) is allowed to begin his first year. As a body is spotted floating nearby the cliffs Corey and young Troy head to its aid. Soon they discover that there is not much they can do but bring it over to the police. As they wait for the water police a shark takes interest in the situation and is circling the jet ski.

9 /10

S4.E8 ∙ Episode #4.8

Mon, Mar 30, 2009

A heatwave tortures Bondi visitors. The day has barely begun or the first of many victims fall due to a heat stroke. The next day the wind has brought in the cold water from deep in the ocean, resulting in a heatwave on land and almost freezing ocean water. The lifeguards now change to treating people for hypothermia. As a race starts, not many swimmers make it to the end in the freezing water. When a strong wind comes in, tourists flee the beach, but surfers head in. With more surfers in than waves it is a recipe for collisions.

8.3 /10

S4.E9 ∙ Episode #4.9

Mon, Apr 06, 2009

As always tourists are the cause for sticky situations at Bondi. As they can't understand the Lifeguards, 'H' is pulled into a rescue that is seconds away from being a drowning. Lucky to be saved out of the water, the man finds out quickly that that doesn't mean he's out of danger.

8 /10

S4.E10 ∙ Episode #4.10

Mon, Apr 13, 2009

It's an extremely hot day on Bondi, so must assistance is for sunburn-victims. Still there are also an OD, bad falls and hopelessly inept swimmers. Although even the athletic lifeguards are exhausted by the heat, they soldier on relentlessly and help everybody.

8.6 /10

S4.E11 ∙ Episode #4.11

Mon, Apr 20, 2009

After over 20 years, Bondi welcomes the world's best surfers again, notably ninefold world champion Kelly Slater, who teams up in the first event with has-been Kerrbox, whose board is soaped up by an anonymous prankster. Whippet fails to qualify by bad luck, Kobi gets in. Others remain on rescue duty during the events, next being an 'airial', surf jumps.

8.8 /10

S4.E12 ∙ Episode #4.12

Mon, Apr 27, 2009

In the carnival atmosphere of surfing and music, a roll of builders plastic becomes a make-shift slip and slide on a hill at South Bondi. But what seemed like a good idea at the time ends badly.

8.8 /10

S4.E13 ∙ Episode #4.13

Wed, Dec 31, 1969

A giant swarm of stingers hits Bondi, leaving beachgoers in pain and distress. Lifeguards are stretched as they must treat hundreds of men, women, and children. Meanwhile, a surfboard has washed up.

8.8 /10