Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
Bondi Rescue Season 12 Episodes
Season 12 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 2016 - 2016
Episode 1
Episode #12.1
With its sparkling charm and picture-perfect scenery, hundreds of tourists flock to Bondi every single day. However the Lifeguards are on edge due to extreme weather conditions and large crowds.
Episode 2
Episode #12.2
Glick is eager to spill his advice to strolling-by Austraian PM Malcolm Turnbull as well as an eager-to-learn Bondi recruit. Stormy weather almost clears the beach, but even during a typhoon some tough surfers risk it, even foppish swimmers, so they have to be rescued. At one point, Jesse can only leave the tower by calling Hoppo to jump in while working in the nearby HQ office. A musical tourist intrigues the tower gang by dancing near the sea during the storm, so Jethro goes check up, joins in and brings him to the tower, where he rises to a rapping dare.
Episode 3
Episode #12.3
Christmastime is extremely busy, yet staff only eight, so people ignoring warnings to stay safely away from the rift can really annoy the Bondi team. Maxi gets a buddy to pose Bondu rescue calendar photographer to play a hazing prank on kid cousin Ryan, who proves a good sport and cute model. While Harrison and Jesse tend to a cardiac case, a drowning alert causes rescue services to mass, luckily without an actual corpse.
Episode 4
Episode #12.4
Knaves often cockily enjoy diving at Backpackers rock, but it's Always slippery and in heavy sea one is easily caught by the current and painfully smashed into the spike-sharp barnacles. In summer, the last shift normally leaves at seven, but now a Turk is reported missing, only to be found on dry beach later. However thus the boys were still around to notice and rescue a swimmer in fatal danger. Locals and accidental heroes in the water often try ti help swimmers in need, but this is another instance that could have proven fatal for one of them without the pros surfing to the rescue.
Episode 5
Episode #12.5
The Bondi Boys get a surprise visit from Australia's leading male exotic dance show Manpower, but shrimp-size Jethro declines 'prospecting', so they delegate a bald member to 'recruit' Kerrbox. Even helped by volunteer auxiliary, the Bondi boys shift is overstretched when many swimmers are in trouble. In the haste, Trent 'Singlets' feels guilty having killed a seagull colliding with his buggy, so Jethro helps him give it a beach funeral. A weird aloof local jogger in trademark white briefs has a seizure requiring restraint, yet proves remarkably grateful afterward.
Episode 6
Episode #12.6
On New Ears day, Bondi is more overcrowded then ever. First it's mainly revelers who come cool down, party on or sleep off booze on the beach. Dozing off in the rising sun is dangerous, so the boys must check up and have some removed into the shade. Even helped by volunteer auxiliary and surfers, the Bondi boys are utterly overstretched with so many swimmers in trouble. They fear for mass drowning when a record number of Dutch turn u for the new Year dive, but those orange cap bearers all return safely. In the end, Hoppo tries to clear the beach after shift by shark alarm, but it fails in the south side, so the men must stay longer. Trent 'Singlets' and his tower team partner Mario make up only afterward, Mario having made a scene after being rebuked for failing to give Jesse proper location instructions during jet-ski rescues.
Episode 7
Episode #12.7
Lifeguards are confronted by an inconsolable mother suffering heatstroke who has lost her 3-year-old child. Later, Tommy and Harrison treat hundreds of people suffering bluebottle stings.
Episode 8
Episode #12.8
A small shift is flat-out rescuing swimmers who keep getting into trouble in the rifts, so one must decide who to pick up first and when to send in reinforcements. Sometimes people would drown without a volunteer on the spot, sometimes the hero would drown himself without the Bndi boys, like an Indian-born local father of two sons. The busy mates find some people grateful for rescues and even enjoying the very ride-back on their surfboards, yet Ryan is a bit embarrassed when toppled by a wave.
Episode 9
Episode #12.9
On a rainy day, people still go swim despite the dangers. A toppled fishing boat was spotted from the cliff. Maxi lifts on the bumpy jet-ski tail piloted by Quiggers for a difficult search and rescue. Jake duly scolds Chinese tourists who keep swimming in the rift even after he could barely rescue Chow, who is equally ignored and even joins them shortly after. Jethro bites his flu symptoms and pulls off an exhausting rescue, but collapses o the base immediately after. The surfing Bondi Boys are puzzled by the Peruvian board, consisting merely of bound reed used to fish, according to the Peruvians older then Polynesian types, which even Luke finds hard to adapt to.
Episode 10
Episode #12.10
A small shift is flat-out rescuing swimmers ad treating painfully stung victims of bluebottle jellyfish, brought in by the rift's stream, Luke even has to remove one bu hand, hence by stung. While Maxi prepares a badly unconscious woman for an ambulance, Jesse must coordinate rescues and the search for a teen boy who remains missing nearly four hours. Some rescues on the special broad surf boards are complicated by the victim's excessive weight, one Indian can't even climb onto the jet-ski. The surfers on the team enjoy a visit from Brazil's blind surfer who even enters Hawaii's Pipeline.
Episode 11
Episode #12.11
A nice knave broke his wrist on the skateboard ramp, but proves another happy green whistle-customer. Jesse must dash off without equipment back all across the beach fro an urgent rescue, as Reedy feared once more resulting from people unable to read to notices in English. A charity bagpiper lends the Scottish instrument to unpromising novice Harries. A stealing junkie is citizen-arrested by Maxi and a mate, but released as the loot isn't claimed. Even video students recording themselves one-handed like many tourists in Bondi waters don't properly notice the rift, yet clink to their cameras while rescued by Harrison and Jesse. The boys are interested in a visiting special forces Afghanistan vet who lost both legs.
Episode 12
Episode #12.12
Maxi has decided after ten funny, productive years in Bondi waters to start another rescue career, as Sydney firefighter. Luckily for him, he can start small putting down a fire in a storage on Bondi beach. Tireless Harrison not only has to contend with the common problems of rift and rescue as such but also finds two consecutive patients insisting to enjoy the ride back aboard his board lying on their backs, looking up and at him. After reminiscing Maxi's career, with great 'initiation' pranks during his record three year training, it's time for a sendoff party.
Episode 13
Episode #12.13
The lifeguards are still coming to terms with the worst tragedy on Bondi Beach in decades when Singlets attempts his first rescue since the incident. Plus, why is Hoppo telling kids to swim in a rip?