Community Engagement

Poseidon lifesaving club were asked to participate at the Greystones Water safety day. This is an annual event hosted by the Greystones An Garda Siochana, to spread the important message of water safety. Joining the Garda and ourselves were the Greystones Coast guard, RNLI, Civil Defence, Greystones First Responders and the Greystones Fire Brigade. A great day was had even though the weather let us down a bit. As you can see from the photos, we managed to get all of the emergency service there to learn a few boards skills.

From 8am Saturday until 8am Sunday, all of our Survive & Save swimmers banded together to raise money for a local charity, Bray Lakers. Each group of four/five volunteers did half hour shifts through the whole day and night. While not on the manakin mat, they were teaching adult, child, and infant CPR and infant choking to the public. They also held a large raffle with amazing prizes to raise as much as possible. In total, we raised over €4,000.

A group of Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers had their first experience with the participants of WimRise as they watched over the group of early risers swim during the sunrise.

The Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers got up early again to help supervise the swimmers going for a splash.

Poseidon Lifesaving Club hosted a few other lifesaving clubs and helped run a beach training session led by none other than Trent (Maxi) Maxwell from Bondi. 

After a couple hours at the Cove in Greystones, the Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers headed up to the Glenview Hotel to run pool and land lifesaving classes for the Rookies. They also set up a hall to teach adult, child and infant CPR and infant choking to the public, with a little help from Maxi.

The group of Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers got up early again to patrol the waters from their boards as the WimRise attendees ran in for a splash of the cold water.

Survive & Save Junior Lifesaving instructors helped coach the three Rookie classes at the beach for four weeks.

Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers hopped on their rescue boards to paddle around with the scouts in their kayaks and keep them together in Greystones harbour.

A group of our Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers took to the waters of Wicklow harbour to keep watch over the huge group of adults taking part in the Standard Distance National Championships. After packing up and getting lunch, the lifesavers helped hand out water for the running leg of the race.

The Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers got out the boards for the WimRise crowd once again to keep the enthusiastic swimmers close to the harbour boundaries.

Our Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers, along with a few other young lifeguards, spread between the sea and sand to guide the waves of young swimmers through the water element of their race.

A group of Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers helped out at, and watched over the Greystones Scouts swim gala.

Survive & Save Junior Lifesaving instructors helped coach the three Rookie classes at the beach for four weeks.

A group of Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers guarded the shores of Greystones beach while a large group of swimmers competed in a fundraiser triathlon for the Gavin Glynn Foundation.

Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers supervised groups of young swimmers from Wicklow Triathlon Club on Bray beach as they competed in the first part of the race.

Our Survive & Save lifesaving volunteers got up early to supervise a sunrise swim in aid of the Simon Community.