Mayor Angela Long met with representatives of LSV, RLSSA-V and AWSEC to mark the occasion.
Thirty years ago, the Royal Life Saving Society Australia Victoria Branch (RLSSA-V – now Life Saving Victoria) took a step in a new direction, entering a partnership with the City of Dandenong to manage the operations of the Dandenong Oasis Indoor Aquatic Leisure Centre, and establish the Australian Water Safety Education Centre (AWSEC).
This week Life Saving Victoria (LSV) and the City of Greater Dandenong celebrated the significant contributions that the AWSEC made toward public pool safety by marking the 30th anniversary of the centre’s establishment.
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A search continued until close to midnight on Saturday and resumed again early in Sunday for a snorkeller who went missing near the pier on Altona beach.
The snorkeller, a 20-year-old woman from Ashwood in Melbourne’s east, was in the water with friends near Altona pier when she disappeared from view on Saturday.
Police searched the water off Altona beach on Saturday afternoon.
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The alarm was raised around 11.15am Saturday, a Victoria Police spokesman said.
Water police and specialist divers scoured the water on Saturday afternoon. A police helicopter was also on the scene.
Police airwing wrapped up the search just before midnight and resumed at about 7.30am on Sunday.
A father has been hailed a hero after he jumped off a bridge and walked across razor-sharp oyster beds to save a three-year-old girl from drowning.
Father-of-two Scott Windon was enjoying a day out with his family at Birchgrove, in Sydney s inner-west, on January 23 when toddler Mia Bullimore tumbled off a three metre ledge into water below.
Without hesitation, Mr Windon lowered himself onto the nearby rocks littered with sharp rock oysters at Mort Bay Park to save the unknown toddler.
The hero dad managed to scoop up the Mia before she completely submerged under the water.
Scott Windon (pictured middle) has been labelled a hero after saving the life of a three-year-old girl in Sydney