Lifesaving

The Muriwai volunteer lifeguard service primarily patrols Muriwai Beach, west of Auckland. We patrol every weekend, from Labour Weekend to Easter. Every year, we give up our personal time to patrol the beach, ensuring that visitors to our beach remain safe.

Whilst on patrol, we set the red and yellow flags to surround the safest area on the beach. If necessary, we move the flags as the beach conditions change. As our lifeguards are volunteers, we will always welcome new members. If you are over 14, and able to swim, we are keen to train you up to become a volunteer surf life guard. Training takes approximately ten hours. Once a lifeguard, you can expect to continue learning advanced skills, like performing first aid, driving our IRBs, all the way up to jumping out of helicopters!

Swim Training - General swim fitness training is available to all club members on a Saturday morning at 7am and/or 8am at the Newmarket Pools. Pay your regular pool entry fee, and you will be assigned to a squad with a professional coach at no additional cost. Rick Wells has arranged this and we need to encourage both our competitive and general membership to take advantage.