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THE RIPPLE Orewa Surf Life Saving Club Newsletter February 2019 Northern Region Junior Champs Orewa Juniors had a successful weekend at the Northern Region Junior Championships held at Omaha SLSC on the 2nd and 3rd of February. Overall 25 competitors from the B Group and 18 from the C Group raced hard on the beach and in the surf over two long days. Their efforts awarded the team a 3rd place finish in the Northern Region for the Cath & Eddie Millar Cup. Individually, the team had over 40 top-10 finishes and was awarded 22 medals. Many of these kids will now head to Oceans 2019 at Mount Maunganui to compete in the National Junior Championships. We wish them all good luck!
Survey Team at Orewa Beach
SLSNR are currently supporting the development of a beach hazard predictive model for the Safeswim
website.
The project outputs include :
A public facing rip current hazard index for Auckland region beaches (through the Safeswim website)
Forecast tool for managers, Duty Officers and clubs to ensure effective resourcing of patrols
A positive learning experience for lifeguards - the ‘science of waves and rips’
Potential for beach safety and rip awareness campaigns to be promoted at the launch and represented on the
Safeswim platform
The development of the model includes a fieldwork component which is being run by Coastal Marine Applied
Research (Plymouth, UK), the University of Canterbury and SLSNR.
The fieldwork ran between 28th Jan – 16th February 2019 and involved measuring nearshore currents on
both the East and West coasts. The 2 locations decided upon by the team were Orewa and Muriwai, as these
beaches best represent the majority of Safeswim sites on each respective coast.
Survey team about to put out floating current measuring devices at Orewa.
Sponsored by
Orewa SLSC supported Advanced Lifeguard Award
by by Sam Reinen (photos courtesy of SLSNZ)
In December, I was fortunate enough to be selected as one the 20
candidates from New Zealand, to attend the National Lifeguard School,
achieving my Advanced Lifeguard Award.
Strict criteria included that candidates must be:
Over 17 years of age;
Have at least 3 years life guarding experience;
Have their IRB Drivers;
Patrol Captains;
First Aid level 1 & 2;
Senior Lifeguard Award;
C.I.M.S 2.
Pre-course physical tests ensured we were able to swim 800m in under 14
minutes and run 3km in under 20 minutes. I was absolutely ecstatic to be
selected!
Before the course began, all candidates had to complete a workbook
covering the topics we would look at on the course. These included spotting
drowning; IRB operations;
helicopter operations and first
aid. Candidates were required
to get 100% on this workbook.
The course itself was an adrenaline filled rush from
beginning to end. We received training aimed at driving in the surf; advanced
first aid; search and rescue; leadership skills; inter-agency operations with
Police; night operations and helicopter operations.
Despite delays due to a mission, we were lucky enough to have the Taranaki
Rescue Helicopter attend so that we could train setting up a landing site and
jumping from the helicopter into the water. This was an absolute rush,
definitely the highlight of the course.
The final day was test day and all the candidates had to complete a timed Orewa SLSC supported by 800m run swim run and a written test to complete the award. The course was challenging both physically and mentally, but 100% worth it. I met some amazing people, learnt an incredible amount and came out with an amazing life experience. I would absolutely recommend it to anyone who can do it. You Travel Orewa Surfs Up fundraiser is on now. Please support our club, we need every member to get behind this awesome raffle and sell tickets. WE NEED YOUR HELP - We have 200 left books to sell . If you have not received your books please contact me and I will get them to you . If you can sell another book or two PLEASE PLEASE let me know ASAP Tickets need to be returned to Andrea by 3 March. Remember ... $500 CASH PRIZE for the member who sells the most tickets. Any queries please contact Andrea 0211701838 or email andreamay47@yahoo.co.nz
Business House
Sponsors
Airflow Engineering
AJ Electrical
Answer Services
Auckland Siteworks
Barak Investments Ltd
Beachcomber
Borders Real Estate HBC SAVE THE DATE
C&R Surveyors
Carpet Link Club Trivia night
Carters U19 Men getting some air
Citywide Electrical Saturday 13 April
Coastal Auto Parts
Contrax Ltd
Cranefield Automotive &
@ Silverdale Primary School
Tyres MC—Rog from The Rock
Dads Pies More info to follow
Eaves Associates
Fly DC3 NZ Inc
Forrest Funeral Services
Hair By Design
HBC Medical Centre
HBC Musculoskeletal
Medicine Clinic
Hopper Construction
Ikon Homes
Shop Between The Flags
Kevin Moffat
A huge thank you to Catherine and the team at New World Orewa for their
Developments
Laser Electrical Silverdale support of the club yet again, with this weeks “Shop Between The Flags ‘
Life Pharmacy Orewa promotion.
Liquorland Orewa
McColl Building Services When you shop at New World Orewa you can make a donation to Orewa
Metro Roofing Surf Life Saving Club with your purchase. You will go into a draw to win a
Mitre 10 Ponsonby $100 Surf Club restaurant voucher.
Neville Bros. Ltd
North Harbour Law
On Point Projects
Orewa Framing Studio
Orewa Lions
Orewa Massage Worx
Orewa Optics
Penfolds Hospitality
Plumbest
Plumbuilt Plumbing
Recreational Services
Rodney Insulation Ltd
Rodney Roofing
Scott Electrical
Signpost Signs
New World Orewa foyer Catherine rocking her Supporter shirt
Strata Funding
SupShed
T & L Keinzley
Tempest Air Conditioning
Underground Surf & Skate
Walker Built
Wilco Projects Ltd
Important Dates
March
7 –10 : Oceans ‘19
17 : last day of Junior Surf
21 –24 : Senior Nationals
30 : NR Rookie Challenge
Call Out Training
On the Sunday 13th of January the call out squad members and a few
Surf Lifeguard Award of the volunteer lifeguards from patrol 4 took part in a training
Training scenario.
Our next course is coming It was a missing person last seen in water close to the estuary 100-
up over April with the 150m off shore. 2 IRB’s and 3 in-water swimmers engaged in the
exam 27 April. There are search.
week nights and weekend With use of the dye pack set to a depth to mark and show the flow of
training sessions, including water from the last known point, swimmers took turns diving down
pool sessions. looking for an imaginary submerged person in the direction of ink.
IRBs searched the surrounding area and kept the swimmers safe.
If you would like more info
and to register please
email Heather
admin@orewasurfclub.co.nz
Orewa Surf Life Saving Club www.orewasurfclub.co.nz 09 4265058
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