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.
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Kane Treloar points out the brown sand churned up in the water washing out to sea at Thirteenth Beach, near Barwon Heads. It’s a telltale sign of a rip.
Just last weekend a 56-year-old man drowned in big waves at this section of unpatrolled beach. A helicopter winched the man from the water but lifeguards could not revive him.
Life Saving Victoria’s Kane Treloar at Thirteenth Beach where a man died earlier this month.
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“The water was turbulent that day. It was full of sand,” Mr Treloar says. “Then the next day another four people were pulled out here in exactly the same place.”
The river claims the lives of about two Victorians on average each year; a 35-year-old man became the latest drowning victim on Tuesday while swimming near Cobram.