Bondi Rescue

- Season 5

(2010)

As summer starts to heat up most Australians are winding down at work and getting ready to break for the holiday period. But for the Bondi Rescue lifeguards it's the busiest time of the year.

It's Christmas Day on Bondi and road weary travellers, local families, and Christmas orphans come to see Santa make an appearance on Australia's most famous strip of sand.

The team stay busy dealing with a three pronged onslaught: a British tourist who dislocates a shoulder; an events organiser with a suspected spinal injury and a flurry of people stung by blue bottles.

An intense low pressure system between New Zealand and Tasmania has dispatched giant waves to Bondi and surrounding beaches.

Bondi is known as a party town and on New Years' 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 aftermath.

In a typical Saturday at Bondi the tower is overrun by blue bottle victims. Today they all are from China, most under 14, and only one of them can speak English.

Bondi Rescue follows the work of elite lifeguards in charge at the world's busiest beach. With people's lives literally in their hands, these lifeguards ensure safety is their number one priority.

Sixteen-year old trainee Temika does her first serious rescue, so the boys decide to up the stakes and invite her into the annual lifeguard ironman challenge.

Amid a shark sighting, attack victim Glenn Orgias comes by and tells lifeguards about the day he lost an arm to a white pointer at South Bondi. American heart throb Zac Efron also hits the beach.

A 14 year old boy is rushed to the tower suffering a drug overdose. While a man suffers a severe compound fracture to his big toe, penguins invade the beach.

World surfing icon Kelly Slater comes to town. A woman is found slashing herself with a razor blade, while a man suffers a seizure after a big night. The crew see their biggest head cut of the year.

n a busy episode of Bondi Rescue, two teenagers wake at the beach to find their money and phones missing, while skate pros and fans hit the sand for the Bowlarama contest.

A man reports to lifeguards that his friend has not been seen since going for a midnight-swim. Fearing the worst, a major search is launched for the missing man.