Season 16

It's been a year like no other at Bondi Beach. Beach marshals work with the lifeguards to check numbers and enforce social distancing, but it's a challenge the lifeguards are only too keen to accept.

Where is the safest place to be when you're at the beach during a lightning storm?

One Bondi lifeguard does a rescue 500 meters out from the shore line! Is this the longest board rescue ever?

Intense waves hit Bondi. Plus, a woman presents at the tower with a painful and mysterious injury.

On the hottest day of summer, Hoppo rescues an international student drowning in waist deep water metres from shore, while Evo finds a semi-conscious woman being carried out of the surf.

Lifeguards tend to a man injured in a game of American Football on the sand. Plus, Harrison performs his "worst rescue ever" when a rat gets stuck in the skate bowl.

Australia's IronMen and Women help the lifeguards compete in the fiercest lifeguard race yet. Plus new recruit Tyson is put to the test and police are called when a man threatens a surfer.

A man's behavior alarms beachgoers, tensions after a swimmer ignores instructions, and an experiment goes wrong.

Newcomer Max attempts to impress the team, a beginner surfer learns a painful lesson, and Bondi's newest celebrity makes an appearance.

Caught in a rip, a stubborn swimmer refuses to put his hand up. Lifeguards deal with intoxicated beachgoers.