Thousands of school students would learn lifesaving skills each year under a plan to build the state’s first ocean safety centre in Apollo Bay as Victoria grapples with itsThe project’s proponents say the centre would bring a crucial economic boost and additional jobs to Apollo Bay on the Great Ocean Road, which is heavily reliant on domestic and international tourism.Jason South
The Victorian Blue Ocean Safety Skills Centre would educate up to 3000 school students a year under the joint initiative proposed by the Apollo Bay Surf Life Saving Club and Apollo Bay P-12 College.The school would host students at onsite accommodation, while ocean training programs would be conducted at the club, which overlooks the beach., with 43 deaths since July 1 last year, including 16 on the coast.
He said the students would learn to carry out basic rescues, recognise dangerous conditions and how to determine when it was too risky to enter the water.
Check your facts! This is not a first. Club Lorne have been doing this for 20 yrs to approx 24000 kids
Chevy Chase can swim
Tbh the problem for many Victorians isn’t that they lack lifesaving skills, it’s that they lack the ability to swim altogether. This is a great idea but we’ve also gotta get more kids in swimming lessons, starting from a young age.
Great idea.
Long overdue