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# Take me back to the sweet times

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# The hot nights

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# Everything is gonna be alright

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# In the summertime

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# Baby, in the summertime

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# That is where I'll be. #

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Veteran lifeguard Harries has always
been a favourite at Bondi.

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# Oh-Oh! #

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Action hero...
Danger. I feel it on my skin...

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..aspiring poet...

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..but at no stage was I threatened
by the creature within.

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Back when he was a relative rookie,

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Harries dug his heels
into the sands of Bondi.

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Been on the beach 10 years,

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I'm gonna be on the beach
for another 30 years.

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Now coming up to his 30th year...

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I'm the permanent fixture,

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like a lighthouse here, son.
(LAUGHS)

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..the grinning guru
wants to pass down his wisdom

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to his young followers.

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Lesson number one -
if you're gonna scan the beach,

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don't do it like you're reading,
go from left to right,

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go against the grain

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and it'll keep you alert
at all times.

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The key to observation is elevation.

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The veteran life guard,
29 years in the game.

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It's about teaching the skills
back to these young recruits.

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10 years now!

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If you're a 10-year-old,
you're in Year 5,

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so I'm going to school these kids!

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I'm just doing advance to head down.

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It's swift between
the red and yellow flags.

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School's in for Faddy this afternoon.

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He's patrolling the north flags
while Harries is down south.

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Faddy grew up with me
down at Bronte Beach.

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He's an exceptional surfer.
He won the junior Australian titles.

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I remember him doing a rescue...

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The patient's slipping
off the board...

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He was covered in suncream.

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Could not for the life of him
get him on my board.

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So slippery.

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I knew the boys were watching
on the beach and I panicked,

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passed him on.
He's given in!

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He gave him to the IRB.

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Oh, Faddy!

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Everyone gets a nickname here.

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And I named him Slippery
straightaway.

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You can't just slip someone
off the board and pass them on.

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You have to bring him back
into shore.

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Four years later,
Faddy has a chance to redeem himself.

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I just noticed some splashing
in the rip.

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Three people that were starting
to sink.

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They weren't in a good way.

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South buggy, Harries, mate.

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Can you just go up to
the middle set of flags?

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There's three just drifting out.

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I better go.

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I get a call to back Faddy up.

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And it wasn't just one rescue,
he had three guys.

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I've never had to rescue
three people at once.

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My first priority
was just to get them there,

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hanging onto the board, floating.

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(SHOUTING FROM WATER)

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I did hope Harries would come out.

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Mate!

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Where's the other one?

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Because it all happens so quickly...

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..you don't really have time
to get anxious or scared about it.

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You're kind of like,
"Oh, well, this is the situation.

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"I've got to get on with it."

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He's got him. He's got all three.

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Well, one was on the board
and two were holding onto his ankles

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on the side of the board.

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I'm thinking, "Wow, this is amazing!

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"He's created his own
rescue technique here."

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Got them in, mate.

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Harries seemed to think
I had it under control,

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so he let me wrangle them in.

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Wow! He's got all three of them,

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and he brings them
back to shore safely.

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I'm so proud.

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He's getting the job done
exceptionally well.

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And there's nothing better
than having a great waterman

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part of your service.

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That time when you, you know,

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you were slipping off the board...
Yeah.

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Mate, you've gotten that good
at the rescues,

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you had four of them. Four!

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Nah! It was three! Three!

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I'm one. Four, including me.

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That's what I'm saying...
I couldn't swim.

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..four of you out in the water.

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So, yeah,
you're not Slippery anymore,

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you're Grippy now!
(LAUGHS)

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The new pups,
they might have a bit to learn,

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but they also teach me a lot, too.

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Faddy has earned himself
a new nickname!

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Love you, Grippy!

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I think Harries thinks
that first incident

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has made me determined
to never let that happen again.

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And it's true.

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But I'm not going to let him
know that!

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Keeping thousands of swimmers safe
day after day

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puts strain on
even the most experienced lifeguard.

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And one of Bondi's best
has set himself an even tougher test.

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The challenge is running, walking,
crawling for 48 hours straight.

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Over two days and nights,
Will plans to run more than 150km

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back and forth along the coast.

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He's gonna start at 4:00PM
this afternoon near Bondi,

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and he's gonna finish here at Bondi,
4:00PM on Friday.

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I'm going to work,
go home and sleep,

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come back to work for another
full 12 hours,

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go home and sleep, come back,

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and he'll be still bloody going!
(LAUGHTER)

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(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

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Will's marathon is raising money
for a charity called Bottle It,

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which promotes exercise
for mental health.

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It's something close
to Will's heart.

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I've struggled with mental health,

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losing the one thing
that I was passionate about

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and wanted to, sort of,
make a career, which was rugby.

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I lost it to a serious head injury.

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I've been to dark places after
not being able to play anymore.

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With Bottle It, all you have to do
is just run, swim, cycle,

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do something
that is going to benefit

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not only your physical health,
but your mental health.

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It's a solo run,
but Will is not alone.

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His fellow lifeguards
will take turns to run alongside him.

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Oh, look, down here,
it's like a brotherhood,

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you know, all us guys in blue,
and we support each other

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whatever they're doing,
any adventure they're doing

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and charity raising,
we all get behind it.

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I'll have a run. I'll do a couple
of legs tomorrow and Friday.

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We're just going to try
and take his head

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out of the pain-cave a little bit.

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I've signed myself up to
the graveyard shift!

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Well, where would you want
to be at 3:00AM in the morning?

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In bed!

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(LAUGHTER)

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So, does he take a bit of bog roll
with him?

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Run with that?
So many questions.

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There's a part of me wanting him
to not finish,

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just so I've got something over him
for the rest of his life!

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And then also, there's a part of me
going "100%, he's gonna nail this!"

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While Will's quest has just begun,

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most of the lifeguards
are heading home for the day...

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..until an urgent call
just south of the tower.

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(WOMAN MOANS IN PAIN)

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EDDY: It was a surfboard fin chop
to the inside of her thigh.

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The people who pulled her out said
the femoral artery had been hit.

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The femoral artery is
a major blood vessel in the leg.

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Ambulance, please.

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If severed, a person
can bleed to death in minutes.

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It would appear, at the moment,
it's her femoral artery.

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I believe
she's just lost consciousness.

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(WOMAN MOANS IN PAIN)

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Right on pack-up time at Bondi,

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a surfer has suffered a fin chop
from her own board.

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First responders and lifeguards
suspect

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she's severed
her femoral artery.

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The femoral artery is the biggest
artery in the body,

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and it runs down
the thigh of the leg.

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If you cut it,
you can lose all of your blood

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in a very short time.

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If it's not treated the right way,
you've only got minutes to live.

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Within 30 seconds, Joel and Jacko
brought the trauma kit...

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..used mainly for shark attacks,

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and I've never seen that kit
had to get used.

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All the big bandages
and dressings, tourniquet,

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things like that,
to deal with major wounds.

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The first responders have got
a towel

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and they just wrapped it
really tightly around her leg,

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and it was just blood
coming through the towel.

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One of the first responders
is a doctor who was surfing nearby.

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She's been applying pressure
to the wound

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to staunch the bleeding.

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It wasn't until
we undressed the towel,

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then we could see
how bad the cut was.

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It was the worst I've ever seen,
for sure.

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Massive, deep wound.

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I need more...

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It was as deep as, yeah,
I've ever seen anything go.

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(WOMAN MOANS IN PAIN)

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We then had a deeper look
into the cut,

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and at this point,
I knew straightaway

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that the femoral artery
had not been cut open or damaged,

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so that was a big moment of relief.

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And we all looked at each other
and we said,

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"OK, you know, we're going to get
this girl off the beach."

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22-year-old Karolina is on holidays
from the Czech Republic.

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Right now, she's struggling
to comprehend her brush with death.

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We've got her in the buggy,
we're on our way home.

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At this stage,
we knew she was in good hands,

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'cause the paramedics
came there so quickly.

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It was the best response
from the paramedics I've ever seen.

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The ambulance
is there within minutes.

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Just... The first responders
applied that towel

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and they just had it so tight.

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Like, they had all their body weight
on her leg,

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with the towel wrapped up.

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MAN: Makes me scared about...
Does, eh?

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I can't believe that doesn't happen
more often though, like...

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She was millimetres away
from dying,

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which is something that...

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It gets thrown around a lot,
close to dying, all this stuff,

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but, like, she really was that...
Like, THAT close to dying.

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If it wasn't for Doctor Kate's
quick response,

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things could have turned out
very differently.

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While the exhausted lifeguards
can finally pack up,

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Will is only a few hours
into his marathon run.

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I'm feeling really good.

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We're 2 hours 45 minutes in,

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so you can ask me that again
in another 30 hours!

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For the next two days,

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he will run up and down
the coast near Bondi,

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raising funds
for a mental health charity.

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I've struggled with mental health,

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just trying to find my way
from injury.

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Rather than me sitting at home,

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I could focus my energy on training

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and sort of becoming a better
person just through movement.

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That's why Bottle It
is so important to me.

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Whoo!

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Will's fellow lifeguards
are right beside him...

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..Mitch and Coops joining him
for the night shift.

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There'll be certain checkpoints
where I have to have a break.

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If I need medical attention
or anything like that,

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I'll be stopping,

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but, other than that,
I've just got to keep grinding

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and keep moving away.

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We've got La Perouse...

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..that'll take us
into the night-time.

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Nightfall, Will is slowing down.

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Bed's overrated!

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Close to walk, where it's at.

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First lap done.

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Back at the start line.
Pretty much 55km in, I think.

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By morning, Will is 14 hours
into his run...

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..but the lifeguard shift
has only just started.

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Eddy is on patrol today, keeping
an eye on the rip down south.

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Holy shit! OK, I gotta go,
I gotta go!

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See you, bruh.

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As soon as I start driving down
to the Backpackers' Rip,

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I saw two people,
hands go up and just splashing.

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And as soon as you see
the white wash,

246
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you know instantly
someone's in trouble.

247
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That's indicating
that they're panicking

248
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and they're potentially drowning.

249
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(RADIO BLEEPS)
South Buggy to central.

250
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I'm in here for two heads
in the south corner.

251
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And the panic
that I've seen in them,

252
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when you see the look,

253
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you see all the splashing
around them

254
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and you know
they're fighting for their lives.

255
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I've just seen hands, like,
going up and I'm hitting waves,

256
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and then I've just sort of
lost sight of them.

257
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I don't want to lose contact
with those hands.

258
00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:55,120
Eddy has raced in
to save a couple panicking

259
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in the notorious Backpackers' Rip.

260
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It's hard to tell people
to not panic.

261
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However, it's absolutely
the worst thing you can do.

262
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You just use so much energy.

263
00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:05,760
It only takes 10 or 15 seconds

264
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to use all your oxygen
to stay afloat.

265
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Each wave I went over,
I lost sight of them,

266
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so I just never knew
if they were going under or not.

267
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They were definitely exhausted.

268
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Come back. They were so surprised.

269
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I don't think they knew
that any help was on the way,

270
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and they were just very relieved.

271
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I want you to lie down.
Lie down onto the side.

272
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The husband,
who was really doing his best

273
00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,040
to keep his partner afloat...

274
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Because I think
that she couldn't swim very well

275
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or at all, and he knew that.

276
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So, yeah, it was a huge relief.

277
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Come back and lie down.

278
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I need all of you to lie down.

279
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They were just in shock.
Lie down, lie down.

280
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They just don't process
simple instructions,

281
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because they've just been
so exhausted.

282
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When we got to the beach,
a lot of emotion came out.

283
00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:11,960
It's alright, that's OK.

284
00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:13,480
For them, it was life-threatening,

285
00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:16,200
and I know that they were
incredibly appreciative.

286
00:15:22,320 --> 00:15:24,280
On holidays from Colombia,

287
00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:27,880
husband and wife Barack and Angie
had no idea

288
00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:30,360
how dangerous Bondi can be.

289
00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,000
Oh! I'm exhausted after that one!

290
00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:53,840
So many rips,
they look usually so calm.

291
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That attracts the people
who can't swim.

292
00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,440
So, definitely,
yeah, definitely a close call.

293
00:15:59,440 --> 00:16:02,240
Luckily, they can go home
happy today.

294
00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,640
We're glad to see on your feet!

295
00:16:08,640 --> 00:16:12,600
Three days after her life-threatening
fin-chop injury,

296
00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:14,520
Karolina is up and about.

297
00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:19,000
Surgery, it took like, two hours,
Stitches in many levels.

298
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A part of me
still just doesn't believe

299
00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:22,280
that it didn't hit
the femoral artery.

300
00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:23,840
It was such a big fin cut

301
00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,920
and it just went so deep
into her leg.

302
00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,520
I actually get a flight today
to Prague.

303
00:16:28,520 --> 00:16:31,120
So, thank you.
I don't want to see you ever again!

304
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,440
Yeah, yeah!
OK, let's shake on that.

305
00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,120
Alright, yeah,
we don't want to see you either!

306
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(BOTH LAUGH)

307
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For her to come back
and say thank you,

308
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it's a great feeling.

309
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Will has reached the halfway point
of his 48-hour coastal run,

310
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but it's looking more like
the end of the road.

311
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It was that halfway point
where I thought,

312
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"Oh, shit, I've got to start again!"

313
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And he does.

314
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With 24 hours still ahead of him,
Will soldiers on.

315
00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:10,240
Really seizing up now.

316
00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,240
Just got to keep moving.

317
00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:16,520
Guts are starting to play up
with the amount of sugar and shit

318
00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:18,280
that I've got in me.

319
00:17:18,280 --> 00:17:19,280
Um...

320
00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:32,560
I was starting to fade,
and I was with Jethro.

321
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:36,480
He told me I was sort of swaying
from side to side, and...

322
00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,160
..I was starting to get
a little bit delirious.

323
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:43,680
I was hallucinating,
seeing penguins on the road.

324
00:17:45,080 --> 00:17:47,680
I just had to stop
and just cool off

325
00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:49,960
because the heat was pretty crazy.

326
00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,000
WOMAN: Is this his tube?

327
00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:55,200
The biggest worry at that point
is dehydration or sunstroke,

328
00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:57,800
but I was drinking so much water.

329
00:17:57,800 --> 00:17:59,240
I've just got to keep trudging on.

330
00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:04,360
Will pushes through
to the second night...

331
00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:05,400
Big man's putting me in.

332
00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,320
..with a little help from his
friends,

333
00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,080
including Maxy, Glick, and Harrison.

334
00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,480
Come on, Bigsy!
Bring it home, brother!

335
00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:13,640
Go, Willie!

336
00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:16,480
The second night, it's still hot,
it's humid,

337
00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:18,600
but the support that I've had,
it's been unbelievable.

338
00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,920
Yeah, just walking at the moment.

339
00:18:20,920 --> 00:18:22,680
It was a massive boost for me.

340
00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:24,160
It was really special, actually.

341
00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,000
They just kept pushing me.

342
00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:30,840
By day two...
Morning!

343
00:18:30,840 --> 00:18:33,960
..Will has
a band of brothers by his side.

344
00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:36,800
He's known for
his high pain threshold,

345
00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:39,120
but Will's legs are cramping

346
00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,400
and he's struggling to continue.

347
00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:43,240
HARRISON: He is in
the home straight.

348
00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:44,480
The body's seizing up.

349
00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:48,640
I don't know how he's done it.

350
00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,480
That last morning was horrendous
for me.

351
00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,920
Yeah, I was up the proverbial creek
without a paddle.

352
00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,600
Lifeguard Will is 38 hours and 140km

353
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:19,240
into his two-day run
for mental health charity, Bottle It.

354
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,360
But the finish line
feels a long way off.

355
00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:26,760
The way he's holding himself,
he's in pain.

356
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:30,880
He's hurting and you can tell
he's defeated.

357
00:19:30,880 --> 00:19:33,600
So, that last morning
was pretty horrendous for me.

358
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,200
The lifeguards rally around him.

359
00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:44,320
The boys,
they just kept pushing me.

360
00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:49,640
And I had too much support around me
to give up.

361
00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:50,640
Body power!

362
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,920
Being a lifeguard, it's everything.

363
00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:10,520
And it's everything to all of us
up there,

364
00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:13,440
because in the summer months,
we spend more time with each other

365
00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:14,640
than we do our families.

366
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,680
We know each other inside and out.

367
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,200
We're always there for each other,
inside of work and outside.

368
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:33,840
The camaraderie and mateship
in that tower,

369
00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:36,560
and in this team,
it's second to none.

370
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,880
Yeah, it's bloody special.

371
00:20:43,880 --> 00:20:44,880
(WHISTLES)

372
00:20:46,040 --> 00:20:48,320
I kind of found this second wind
in me.

373
00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,240
And, yeah, mate,
I'm feeling good,

374
00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:51,960
I'm moving good.

375
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:54,000
Feel a million bucks, really.

376
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,000
We've seen him go back and forward

377
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,160
past here for the last 48 hours.

378
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,120
He's only got about
10 minutes to go,

379
00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:09,120
so great effort.
I can't believe he's done it.

380
00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,520
The finish line,
I didn't expect anyone to be there.

381
00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:15,720
Like, I wanted a family
and a few mates to be there.

382
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,000
And then I'm just running by myself
at North Bondi,

383
00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,200
and I look up
and just behind the tower,

384
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:22,960
there's just people everywhere.

385
00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,960
And I was like...
Everyone was in white shirts.

386
00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:27,000
And so I was like,

387
00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,840
"There must be
some sort of white party on

388
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,040
"or something like that."
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

389
00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,080
As I'm getting closer,
these claps start happening

390
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,720
and I was like...
Well, I just get these chills.

391
00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:40,000
I'm going, "Nah, surely I don't know
any of these people!" (LAUGHS)

392
00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,600
What are they doing here?

393
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,800
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)

394
00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,960
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
Yeah!

395
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:01,960
Yeah, running through
the finish line,

396
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:05,120
I see my wife right at the tail-end,

397
00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:08,520
and, yeah, it was something
I'll never forget.

398
00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:10,720
Having all the boys from work there,

399
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:12,640
we've all been through
a lot together.

400
00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:14,880
The support, the cheers

401
00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,480
was something that's
really, really special.

402
00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,080
I got 175 in two days,
so I think that's alright

403
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,680
for a bloke who's my size

404
00:22:22,680 --> 00:22:25,160
and not much
of a long distance runner.

405
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,880
The cherry on top was
to raise the money for Bottle It,

406
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,280
so that foundation can do bigger
and better things

407
00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:35,040
in the future
for people who are struggling.

408
00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:37,720
I won't tell him this, but far out,
I'm so proud of him!

409
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,120
(BOTH LAUGH)