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Surf Life Saving Hawkes Bay co-ordinates surf life saving activities in the District. There are four member clubs:
who patrol at Ocean Beach, Marine Parade-Napier, Waimarama Beach and Westshore Beach respectively.
Surf Life Saving Hawkes Bay is a nonprofit volunteer community based organisation committed to the prevention of drowning and injury in Hawkes Bay by providing surf life saving services to the community and services to meet the needs of a volunteer surf life saving membership.
Hawkes Bay was home to Angus Russell, who could be considered the father of Surf Life Saving in New Zealand. He helped popularise lifesaving in New Zealand and formed a "NZ" branch of the Royal Life Saving Society in Te Awa, Napier. There was a general spillover from Royal Life Saving to Surf Life Saving where many swimming clubs also had surf sections to them. Napier was the first place to hold what would be regarded as the first New Zealand Surf Life Saving Championships in 1915, which was called the Nelson Shield at that time. The Hawkes Bay team happened to win in this inaugural year of national competiton.
Hawke Bay surf lifeguards saved 44 lives, conducted 8 searches, completed 67 first aid treatments, carried out 2302 preventative actions and patrolled a total of 8422 hours during the 2006- 2007 season in serving the community.
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