Ahipara beach education day.

EQUIPMENT THAT WE USED:

We all pace round and round the concrete ramp trying to find the perfect spot to stand and observe, just to be told that we need to stand on the grass to be able to see and understand everything about the first piece of equipment, the kneeboard. The kneeboards can only fit one lifeguard and one other patient with them at a time. Whereas the IRB (Inflatable Rescue Boats) can hold two lifeguards and up to four patients. The IRB’s have spare oars because Who knows maybe when they are going to save someone that's near rocks, they can’t go too close to the rocks as they may pop the boat. So they have to use them or to reach out to the patient and pull them towards the boat and pull them up.


THE HARDEST PART:

The first thing we had to do was try to run in the water without tripping over and face planting.
This was going to definitely be tricky, I said in my head one hundred times over and over. We had to lift our legs up and over at the height of just above our waist.
Straight away as we ran into the water in this particularly weird way I tripped and face planted and had sand all over my face and body, somehow it even was all in my hair from roots to tips.