Bondi Rescue Lifeguards Visit Saddleworth
Lifeguards from Australian TV show Bondi Rescue were in Saddleworth last week, to get a taste of a different kind of rescue. Our own Oldham Mountain Rescue Team took the Aussie lads out for a training session.
It certainly wasn’t a walk in the park for the lifeguards, as they took on an 800ft abseil and were winched across Wilderness Gully in the Chew Valley, simulating what happens when a casualty needs to be stretchered from a remote part of a mountain.
It seems the experience had quite an impression on the visitors from Down Under. Lifeguard Andrew Reid said: “The expertise of all these brave men and women just blew us all away.”
After the training session, everyone retired to the Cross Keys to swap stories over a pint, and Andrew added: “Some of the stuff these guys have been involved in had me gobsmacked and I could’ve sat there all night listening to them.”
Mick Neild, the Team Leader at OMRT added: “We had a great evening with the boys from Bondi, and while our working conditions are different we both save lives in difficult conditions and have similar skills in first aid and fast response.”
You can see more of what they got up to by watching the video above, and taking a look at the pictures below. To see more photos and read Andrew’s take on the day, read a post on his blog here.
The lifeguards are over here to promote beach safety, as well as their own TV show, which is screened over here on CBS Reality. The trip is being promoted by local company Owl Marketing.
To read more Saddleworth News stories about Oldham Mountain Rescue, click here. The team is on Twitter here and Facebook here, and has its own website here.
(all pictures: Liz Lancashire)
Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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