Nipper Saves Seizure Victim - Her Own Mother
Four years of Nipper training proved a real lifesaver for a school girl from Port Douglas, QLD.

Baylie Fletcher is just 11-years-old and recently saved her mother from further injury following a seizure.  The courageous girl found her mother Tracey, 38, unconscious and face down in the family home.  Tracey, who had no previous history of seizures, had smashed her eye socket and cheekbone after collapsing on a tile floor.

Lifesaver Braves Shark
It was a good thing Joanne Lucas arrived early for training on Middleton Beach, WA in late May this year, when a woman ran up to the surf club, shouting that someone was being attacked by a shark.

Belting down to the shoreline, Joanne saw the swimmer about 80m off the beach.  She also caught sight of a circling shark fin.  Without hesitation, she stripped down to her bathers and entered the water. 

Real Life Heroes: Waitress Rescues Swimmer
In between serving meals and coffee in North Cottesloe WA on a weekend in August last year, Victoria Coleclough managed to squeeze a lifesaving rescue into her shift.

When the waitress saw a man struggling in the water on Saturday afternoon, she ran down to the beach, ditched her apron and shoes, grabbed a rescue board and ran into the water.

International Star Saved
Teenage volunteer surf lifesaver, Sam Doonan, will never forget the day of his first lifesaving rescue. For Sam and his brother Joe, Sunday, October 21 was supposed to be a day for a leisurely swim at Kings Beach, Caloundra QLD but this shortly turned into a dramatic surf rescue.

Renee's "Verry Brave" Lifesavers
“I was trying to swim back and I couldn’t get back in; I was being taken out so fast. It was really scary. I couldn’t see Michael and Chelsea. I thought they had drowned.”

Rookie Lifesaver Turned Hero
Someone cried, “can anyone do CPR?” Just hours before, 48 year old Barry Giles finished his Bronze Medallion, qualifying him as a volunteer surf lifesaver.

Nippers to the Rescue
On beaches throughout the country, thousands of lifesaving rescues have been performed by lifesavers and even a group of nippers from Tallebudgera Beach, Queensland have got in on the action.