Medical And Rescue

Tom Williams joins Surf Patrol in a brand new season that showcases lifesaving at its very finest. Tonight, lifesavers are faced with the most critical medical emergency imaginable; a young man is found floating face-down and lifeless in the surf. What transpires over the next 24 minutes is compelling, confronting and heroic.

Bacchus Marsh crash victim Tony receives a skin graft, without it, he could lose all movement in his lower legs. Ice hockey player, Vlad is admitted to The Alfred after being rendered unconscious by a bad fall on the ice. Upstairs in the cardiac ward, 75-year-old Richard urgently needs surgery after doctors find a dangerous heart aneurism. Narrated by Chris Gabardi.

In 2016, Melbourne experienced the world’s largest epidemic thunderstorm asthma event which killed 10 Australians.