Lifesavers are faced with the most critical medical emergency imaginable; a young man is found floating face-down in the surf. What transpires over the next 24 minutes is compelling, confronting and heroic.

Swimmers are ordered from the water in Queensland's Surfers Paradise as the patrol team launches a desperate search for a missing nine-year-old girl. Meanwhile, on Sydney's northern beaches, there is a medical emergency as a teenage girl is dragged unconscious from the surf. Also, at Broadbeach on the Gold Coast, lifesavers swing into action to save an Irish tourist close to drowning in a deadly rip.

Lifesavers respond to reports of a peeping tom in a toilet block. Then, a teenage beachgoer is reported missing.

Lifesavers at Manly have a medical mystery on their hands, and on the Gold Coast, there is another deadly visitor, but it is not in the surf.

A young lifesaver must save an elderly man in treacherous surf, and a plague of bluebottles has lifesavers run off their feet.

Lifesavers face a difficult task to reach a fisherman seriously injured after being washed off the rocks.

A massive search is underway for a shark that attacked a young lifesaver on Sydney's northern beaches.

An ocean race at Cronulla Beach is thrown into turmoil when the lifesaver rescue helicopter spots sharks just fifty metres from competitors.