The WORST episodes of Bondi Rescue

#1 - Episode 3

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/19/2008

Cyclonic waves pound the coast as super big swells hit Bondi. Avid surfers, keen to get some big wave action, muscle in on swimmers' territory, making the water a collision zone.

#2 - Episode 13

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

#3 - Episode 13

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/1/2011

Sydney is in the midst of a heat wave, leaving lifeguards praying for the southerly, as heat, bad swimmers and huge crowds exact a heavy toll.

#4 - 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.

#5 - 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.

#6 - 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.

#7 - 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.

#8 - 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!

#9 - Episode 4

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/27/2012

A man with a deep stab wound to his leg is unable to tell Terry and Deano just how it happened; and, following a collision, a body surfer is brought to shore with no feeling in his arms or legs. Cons: Some Coarse Language, Medical Procedures

#10 - 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.

#11 - 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.

#12 - 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.

#13 - Episode 4

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/2010

Once every 4-6 years, a swell hits the Sydney coastline that is so incredibly huge it becomes a part of local folk-lore. On Wednesday the 20th of January, an intense low pressure system between New Zealand and Tasmania dispatched giant waves to Bondi and surrounding beaches. Lifeguards immediately went into action corralling swimmers into the safest areas of the beach, but the intensity of the waves – which reached up to 15 feet in height – eventually forced them to close the beach for the first time in 12 years. As temperatures reached 33 degrees, swimmers refused to obey lifeguards and swam at their own peril. Many had to be rescued by lifeguards who paddled out on boards. One man, Mohommed, was found lost in the impact zone as huge waves broke on top of him. He profusely thanked lifeguards for saving his life as he was dragged up the beach and put on oxygen. Others were lost under tons of water needing several attempts by lifeguards to get to them into shore. Nearby, lifeguard Azza Graham was taking the opportunity to ride the massive waves on his surfboard. In a first class display he showed that big waves aren’t all doom and gloom for lifeguards. Never before has an episode of Bondi Rescue been able to capture the raw force of the ocean quite like this. And in doing so it has revealed the truly incredible skill and bravery of lifeguards, working in the service of others.

#14 - Episode 10

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/8/2008

Lifeguards treat three suspected spinal injuries within an hour. Lifeguards train up for the intercouncil lifeguard challenge.

#15 - Episode 1

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/5/2008

The school holidays have started and lifeguards are inundated with over-excited kids. Some have joined the Bondi lifeguard team, including 16 year old Trent Maxwell.

#16 - Episode 6

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/11/2008

Tourists and travellers flock to Bondi to spend Australia Day on the nation's most famous beach. Poor conditions create an exhausting day for the lifeguards.

#17 - Episode 12

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/22/2008

Lifeguards discuss beach etiquette. Three men from Liverpool in Sydney's west are caught in a rip. Whippet rescues two surfers, one of whom lifeguards suspect has a broken rib.

#18 - Episode 3

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/22/2009

Paris Hilton leads 10,000 party goers at a beachside New Year's dance party. Reckless behaviour ensues as lifeguards look after masses of people no longer able to take responsibility for themselves.

#19 - Episode 9

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/5/2009

Bondi Rescue follows the work of lifeguards at one of the world's busiest beaches 'Bondi'.

#20 - Episode 5

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

Bondi is a party town, and her night of nights is New Year's Eve. 15,000 revellers descend on the beach front for the Shore Thing Concert. At 5am the following morning lifeguards arrive to deal with the drunk, drug-affected, and disoriented, intent on going for a swim. There are 2 thousand people on the beach and not a towel in sight. The lack of swimming attire is of little concern to many who strip naked and welcome in the new year with a bit of skinny dipping. Mid-morning an emergency call comes in that a boat is taking water at the base of cliffs north of Bondi. Rushing there on the jetski Mouse and Ben arrive to find 23 year old Anthony in a hand built boat he bought on Ebay for two dollars and fifty-five cents. New Year's Eve was his maiden voyage - watching fire works in the harbour, but things went wrong when he decided to head for open water. Partygoers continue to swim as Deano does his best to persuade them to stay on dry land. Next a call comes in alerting lifeguards to a boy with a broken leg in the skate bowl. The steep sides of the bowl are more than ambulance officers are prepared to deal with, so lifeguards are left to move the clearly distressed 15 year old patient up to flat ground. As the end of the day comes to a close, a rescue of a different kind gets underway. A car is bogged behind the surf club, so Harries enlists the lifeguard buggies to pull it out of the mud, with the support of an unlikely team of helpers. Bondi ushers in the new year with the weird and wonderful, plus a few traps for unsuspecting visitors.

#21 - 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.

#22 - Episode 9

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/4/2010

At the beach, stripped down to our cossies, no one can tell a brickie from a banker or a musician from an accountant. But anonymity doesn’t work for everyone at Bondi. Hollywood Heart throb Zac Efron arrives to a frenzy of teenage girls intent on watching him go surfing. The crowd end any possibility of a relaxing surf, and Whippet gets Efron into the getaway car/lifeguard rhino as hundreds of screaming fans surround them. Of course, you don’t have to be a star to grace Bondi’s stage. With the temperature heating up, lifeguards find themselves dealing with a diverse range of characters, including some hot headed trouble makers. The CCTV camera reveals a man being attacked by a mob, and lifeguards call police. Last year at Bondi surfer Glenn Orgias lost his arm in a shark attack. He returns to Bondi to tell lifeguard of his experience. His attack, the first in 80 years highlights the real threat of sharks, so when a 2 metre shark is identified amongst swimmers at neighbouring Tamarama Beach lifeguards respond quickly on the jetski. Then at Bondi they spot a large dark shape swimming quickly through the crowded waves.

#23 - Episode 11

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/18/2010

The world’s best surfers, including 9 time world champion Kelly Slater and current world champion Mick Fanning, descend on Bondi for the Boost Mobile Surf Sho. The aerial surfing contest is the first professional event staged at Bondi in 20 years. Lifeguard, and former world number 6 pro-surfer Rod Kerr, is ecstatic about reliving former glory when he surfs with old sparring partner Slater in the celebrity event. But foul play is afoot and Kerrbox finds his comeback sabotaged. Lifeguards on Jet-skis are kept busy doing water safety for the event, as well as managing the massive crowds. On top of rescues, they’re soon dealing with a seizure, a dislocated knee, and a woman slashing herself with a blade. All lifeguard hands are on deck to make sure everyone goes home safely, and in Kerrbox’s case, still smiling.

#24 - Episode 12

Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/25/2010

Occasionally Bondi reveals all it’s vibrant and varied colours at once. Two teenagers wake up at the beach to find their money and phones missing, leaving Deano to nut out a plan to get them home. The Bowlarama skate competition comes to Bondi, and lifeguards are called to attend veteran skater Sergie Ventura, who is knocked unconscious and bleeding at the base of the bowl. Soon after word come into the tower a man is naked on the beach and pushing children over. Sometimes lifeguards do much more than rescues. At Bondi, it’s virtually expected to be that way!

#25 - Episode 10

Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/10/2011

Lifeguards are called when 14 year-old American up-and-coming skateboarding star Steve Pineiro badly breaks his arm at the World Cup Skating event, Bowlarama at Bondi.