Who are people allowed to swim at beaches like Bondi beach?
 

On busy days they rescue like 100 people a day there who otherwise would've drowned.
Find me 1 other tourist place where 100 people a day nearly died that is still open.

Maybe the life guards are overly protective?...

I doubt it. When you watch it on tv tons of people actually can't get back out of the water anymore and would eventually drown if they don't get rescued. It's ridiculous. Like 5 people at the same time.

Yeah, there are a lot of idiots at beaches..

i wonder if it has something to do with how australia tourism markets itself- raw nature, unimpeded by modernity.

I wonder the same at any beach popular for surfing, you can see all the butthole tourists struggling with the currents and breaks, trying to have a good time still.. lol

It is a popular beach with loads of tourists who have no clue about waves and you are watching a tv show!

I live 600m from a beach and go everyday and have never seen a rescue. I lived near bond I a few years back and never saw a rescue, you are watching a crappy tv show looking for drama and ratings.

if i ever went to australia on vaca, it's not the riptide that would scare me, as absolutely heinous as it can be sometimes there.

it's the jellyfish. eesh!

Yup, all those rescues must be fake.
Also the people who turn blue and need mouth to mouth, all actors.
How did i fall for that. Silly me.

Here, some more fake stats.

http://ten.com.au/bondi-rescue-faqs.htm

How many rescues are there at Bondi beach?

It's difficult to predict the daily frequency of rescues at Bondi as weather and water conditions, school holidays and fluctuating tourist numbers affect the number of rescues performed. Lifeguards can perform anywhere from no rescues on one day to over 200 rescues on another day. Weekly, it can range from 10 to 400 rescues. On average, each year, Lifeguards rescue about 2,500 very grateful people. Of the total rescues performed at Bondi, Lifeguards perform about 80% while the remainder are performed by volunteers from the Bondi and North Bondi surf clubs.

Funny how i know more about the place you lived near by than you do.

I only go to beaches to look at titties.

Last thing I wanna do is go swimming in water full of shit....

They rescue 2500 people a year! 2500!! Tourism or not, why the hell is that place still open for swimming?

Had a blue bottle get me last week :thumbsup

Not what I meant. They cram in all the drama of many days....why am I explaining this? Plus bond I is as I said a very busy beach, so it is an exception. Lots of sizzling white tits on that beach too.

No, they don't cram in all the drama. They just film rescues.
If they have 2500 rescues a year there is no need to look for drama. Just point the camera at the sea and within minutes you'll get your shot.

+ i wouldn't think that beach is open year round. so jam all those rescues into <12 months.

figuring a 6 months season, that's ~14 rescues a day, and it doesn't look like that big of a beach, that's a lot of rescues.

I live near Ipanema beach and we see helicopters pull people out of the water all of the time. I have two people I know get pulled out this way, one of which I got the life guards to go get him. The lifeguards must do ones that we don't see. The helicopter ones are pretty obvious from a distance so they stand out. Probably 3-7 a week during the few months of summer.

But this beach is busy. There must be a 100k people a day on the beach so the percent that get in trouble is really small.

Goddamnit, after 2 edits i still can't figure it out.

Is it:

Funny how i know more about the place you lived near by than you do.
Funny how i know more about the place you lived near to than you do.
Funny how i know more about the place you lived near at than you do.

Beach nutters

i think you can leave out the preposition

Funny how i know more about the place you lived near than you do.

Well fuck me, that was my first guess but than i started thinking about it got completely lost :1orglaugh

As far as I know it is the summer months only for that tv show and that is an extremely busy beach that is very famous and chock a block full oftourists who have never ever been to a beach.

Every rescue is not a near fatality, which is what you seem to think is the case. I know there are plenty of resuces on Bondi, however you are seeing the absolute height of summer AND only the most dramatic rescues.

I have been racking my brain thinking of rescues i've seen at any beach and I have only ever witnessed one drowning when i was very very young and a few helicopters getting fishermen washed off rocks or over turned boats.

I cannot recall ever seeing a rescue, heard the shark siren many times each summer however I haven't seen a rescue, have seen a fin pop out of the water while I was out the back and almost shit my pants only for it to turn out to be a dolphin.

I bet a tourist could show you places local to where you live that you never knew existed.

Sure, but that's slightly different than living next to a beach and acting like there are rarely any rescues there while there are many every day..no?

Yes it is because if they don't get rescued they will drown. It's as simple as that.

Have you even seen the show "Bondi rescue"?
I'm not sure what you are trying to deny here.

I lived on Bondi Beach for a year, 2500/365 = 6.84 a day. That passes the sniff test. I would say 50% are drunk Irish backpackers though, lol. And it's true on a day like X-mas the lifeguards are doing nothing but going back and forth pulling people out.

I wouldn't say it's that anymore dangerous then any other beach though, it's more a matter of way more people equating the ocean to a big pool with waves, which it isn't.

And lots of booze.

Well i lived near the beach in Holland for 10 years and we didn't even have life guards. I never heard of someone needing a rescue there (although i'm sure it happened). The water was very calm.
It obviously totally depends on where you live. Bondi beach has very dangerous waters.

"I SAW IT ON TV SO IT MUST BE TRUE. DERP!"

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bRnEt20VD6...per-retard.jpg

365 / 2500 = 7 people per day.

Check your sources, retard.

...yeess.. because average = busy day.

1 Not every resuce is a near fatality, not every single person will drown if left to their own devices, life guards are proactive. Is every person arrested a murderer?

2 I have been at in or near a beach all my life. Right now (summer) I am at the beach every day. Most of my time is spent getting to more remote parts of a beach (not possible at Bondi) - ie away from tourists and in areas where locals go. If you were to go to the beach you would swim between the flags which is what locals steer clear of and more notably a part of the beach where most rescues occur.

3 I did live near Bondi and I never witnessed a rescue there, not sure how you can dispute that?

Beaches are regularly closed when life guards deem it unsafe, do you think this stops people from swimming and surfing?

Lastly, you cannot blame a beach for tourists not understanding the surf and over estimating their own ability. The water can be an extremely dangerous place to be at any beach, especially if you have no experience.

By me saying I have not witnessed a resuce, i'm not saying they do not occur, I am simply saying they are not as prolific as you seem to think.

So on average day they rescue 7 people and on busy day 100 ?

Makes sense (if you are an imbecile like Frank)

100% spot on.

Frank, I would guess your beaches are far more sheltered from the ocean and from a quick look the waves are pretty much non existent...

Umm.. no.
You calculated the yearly average and figured out that they save 7 people a day.
If you save 1 people per day for 200 days, 10 people for 160 days and 100 people for 5 days.. what's the average? 6.3
That doesn't mean that the guys save 6.3 every day like clockwork...

an article i read just now on bondi beach says they can have a day with 200 rescues and a day with no rescues.

Great comparison...no really..

By any chance the article i linked in this thread?

the one you linked in post #10 is still gold here so i didn't click it. let me check my history........

Yes I know, thanks.

a quick check and i can't find the link, i think i clicked through to a wiki reference.

yeah, it seems to be the same blurb everywhere

It's difficult to predict the daily frequency of rescues at Bondi as weather and water conditions, school holidays and fluctuating tourist numbers affect the number of rescues performed. Lifeguards can perform anywhere from no rescues on one day to over 200 rescues on another day. Weekly, it can range from 10 to 400 rescues. On average, each year, Lifeguards rescue about 2,500 very grateful people. Of the total rescues performed at Bondi, Lifeguards perform about 80% while the remainder are performed by volunteers from the Bondi and North Bondi surf

Ban guns, ban beaches . . . . we missing anything?

I was being sarcastic.

So a beach that can get up to 200 rescues in 1 day should stay open?

i always miss sarcasm

people make their own choices, not you because you may be scared they might die. people skydive and bungee jump off bridges. do you feel youre a parent of the world

Amazing how that moron is trying to attack me but is totally clueless himself :1orglaugh
Can't get much more dunb than that.
But hey, what can you expect from gun nutters.

200 rescues with 100,000 swimmers is a miniscule amount. We should ban showers because of people that fall in them.

I guess you also think seat belts are ridiculous, right, you Rambo you.

100.000 swinmers? You found that where exactly?