Bondi Rescue – Series 1, Episode 4
Clip 2: The aftershock
1 min 52 sec
Taken from the TV program Bondi Rescue – Series 1, Episode 4 (2006)
Original title classification PG – this clip chosen to be PG
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Curator’s clip description
The lifeguards are euphoric. Thanks to their skill and quick action, they’ve managed to bring a young man back to life who was found face down in the water and clinically dead.
Curator’s notes
The debriefing is part of the lifeguards’ ritual after a life-threatening event. They need to talk about how things were handled in order to work out whether anything could have been managed better. In this case, the outcome was terrific. At another time, the young Japanese student might not have been so lucky.
The following week we learn that after the Japanese student is taken by ambulance to the hospital, some of the lifeguards visit him there. We discover that he has a congenital heart problem and he’ll have to have special treatment to prevent a reoccurrence of his heart failure.
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