The WORST episodes of Bondi Rescue

#1 - Episode 14

Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 5/8/2011

An aerial-surfing contest comes to Bondi, attracting an extra 20,000 people to the beach. A beginner surfer inflicts a major laceration to her leg which lifeguards say is the worst they've ever seen.

#2 - Episode 13

Season 11 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/10/2016

#3 - Episode 5

Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/2013

Harry loses his cool with three swimmers that he's forced to rescue just seconds after warning them not to swim in a dangerous area. However, calling them "imbeciles" and "idiots" puts him in hot water.

#4 - Episode 8

Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/21/2013

Huge waves come to Bondi and Bisho is forced to perform a cliff-face rescue using just flippers and a rescue tube. New trainee lands himself in the boss’s office for rookie errors.

#5 - Episode 3

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/18/2014

For the first time ever, the lifeguards treat a teenager suffering anaphylactic shock. Meanwhile, an injury in the skate bowl sees Jesse invent a new rescue technique - the human ladder.

#6 - Episode 8

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/25/2008

The lifeguards go into secret and not-so-secret training for their own iron man challenge. An early morning walker calls the police reporting a lifeless surfer at the southern point of Bondi.

#7 - Episode 6

Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/15/2009

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

#8 - Episode 12

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/26/2009

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.

#9 - Episode 7

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/21/2010

Australia Day brings all shapes, sizes, colours and creeds to Bondi’s shores. But while it’s a party for most, celebrations turn sour for others. Alcohol fuelled fights break out and large numbers of police arrive to quell the agro and eject trouble makers. Kids use the hot weather and public holiday to full advantage, taking their chances in the pumping surf. The rocks are both dangerous and alluring, until one boy is picked up on the jetski with a major head cut and badly broken nose. And, it’s not only the teenagers coming unstuck - 76 year old Bob was on his way to a date in town when he tripped and fell, badly grazing his face. His rendezvous will have to be postponed until after a visit to the casualty ward. At the end of the long day lifeguards pack-up satisfied in the knowledge all swimmers have been accounted for, but an emergency call comes in right at 7pm that 2 girls are being swept out behind the reef at South Bondi. Bacon races to their aid, but is unable to complete the rescue before being swept over the sharp reef. Losing his board he holds on to the girls hoping for back-up to arrive in time.

#10 - Episode 13

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/29/2008

An off duty lifeguard is training at Bondi when he spots a shark. A search is mounted but finds nothing. Days later, a man comes to the tower reporting a shark bite but lifeguards doubt his story.

#11 - Episode 4

Season 15 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/1/2020

Christmas and New Year's means lifeguards are overwhelmed with crowds and the dangerous combination of partying and swimming. There's drunk bathers, teen overdoses and hundreds of reveller rescues.

#12 - Episode 2

Season 15 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/25/2020

As Australia’s bushfires decimate thousands of houses, and millions of animals Maxi fights on two fronts - splitting time between lifeguarding and firefighting. On the shoreline an Iranian tourist is pulled in unresponsive. Her sister translates as lifeguards try to determine if they're treating a spinal, a drowning or a head injury. Harries faces his own language barrier during a rescue when he can’t understand an Irish tourist’s thick brogue.

#13 - Episode 4

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/7/2015

Tonight, Chappo rushes in for a life and death rescue in the monster swells but things don't go as planned.

#14 - Episode 8

Season 18 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/31/2024

Bluebottles swarm at Bondi, so Harries devises a magical treatment for the stings.

#15 - Episode 9

Season 14 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/25/2019

When a backpacker has a violent seizure for over 15 minutes, team leader Beardy fears long-term consequences. And a miscommunication during a serious rescue could cost two people their lives.

#16 - Episode 1

Season 15 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/2020

Australia's east coast has been devastated by drought and fires. While the fires continue to blaze, the smoke impacts the lifeguards' visibility, quality of air, and their ability to protect beachgoers.

#17 - Episode 1

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/6/2006

It's the start of summer and the lifeguards are trying out for a job on the busiest beach in the world. Two and a half million people will visit Bondi over the next few months - up to 50,000 people on any one-day. The season gets off to a dramatic start as race riots on nearby Cronulla Beach threaten to spill over to Bondi. A shark scare only adds to the drama. For a while the beach is bizarrely quiet, then all hell breaks loose when nineteen year-old Natalie suddenly collapses in the water for no apparent reason. Her rescue and hospitalisation is a major incident on Bondi.(Summary from Ten.com.au - Permission granted)

#18 - Episode 11

Season 17 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/23/2023

Chappo must decide which of three struggling swimmers to rescue first. Lifeguards use spotlights when Bondi hosts 15,000 World Pride Beach Party revellers. Hoppo celebrates his 30th year on the beach.

#19 - Episode 6

Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2014

After more than a few ups and downs, Taco's traineeship is coming to an end and he goes all out on his last shift to impress big boss Hoppo. But his plans turn upside down when he flips the jet ski.

#20 - Episode 5

Season 15 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/8/2020

When a car free falls off a ledge, tumbling upside down onto one of the Australia's busiest walking tracks, the Lifeguards venture off the sand to help keep beach goers safe.

#21 - Episode 7

Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/2015

At the south end of the beach, a man screams in pain when he dislocates his hip. The lifeguards are taken by surprise when the man's friend then has a seizure just metres away, but not everything is as it seems.

#22 - Episode 6

Season 15 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/8/2020

Tragedy strikes when a husband and wife are washed off rocks by a massive wave. The Lifeguards search desperately for the couple, hoping that the rescue mission doesn't become a body retrieval.

#23 - Episode 4

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/26/2008

The new kids on the block are put through their paces down at Bondi: Trent 'Maxi' Maxwell, the youngest ever trainee lifeguard and Hawaiian Lifeguard Kyle Pao.

#24 - Episode 1

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/7/2010

As summer starts to heat up most Australians are winding down at work and getting ready to break for the year. For lifeguards it’s the busiest time of the year, as they gear up for holiday crowds, heat waves, and drunken revellers. The Bondi summer hits overdrive when hordes of reckless teenagers pour onto the beach and into the surf. With so many kids and so few lifeguards it isn’t long before tragedy strikes. 18 year old Stephanie was swimming with friends when she hit her head on a sandbank. She is pulled from the water unconscious, and not breathing. Immediately lifeguards begin resuscitating her. The dangers of the surf are also experienced by a beginner surfer from England who is washed up the rocks, breaking his ankle in two places. With lifeguards already overstretched, two men make matters worse by pretending to drowning in front of Deano while he is doing a rescue. Police are called to escort them off the beach. The silly season brings all and sundry to Bondi. When a man in a three-piece wedding suit (complete with tails), is found roaming the sand drinking, smoking, and harassing beachgoers he too finds himself red carded from Bondi until he is sobered up. If the early stages of summer are anything to go by, lifeguards Whippet, Deano, Hoppo and Box are all in for a busy season. But the boys in blue wouldn’t want it any other way. Bondi is back in all it’s glory, madness, and brilliance!

#25 - Episode 13

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/3/2009

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.