Bondi Rescue Star Clint Kimmins Reveals The Dark Side Of Being A Surf Lifeguard
Bondi Rescue star Clint Kimmins reveals the dark side of being a surf lifeguard: ‘It’s not healthy at all’
Bondi Rescue star Clint Kimmins has spoken about the dark side of being a surf lifeguard.
The champion surfer revealed in a candid interview on the good humans podcast, first responders are often faced with suicides.
“It’s not a story I like to tell, but I think it’s something very important to say, it’s mental health and suicides,” he explained.
Bondi Rescue star Clint Kimmins (pictured) has revealed the dark side of being a surf lifeguard on the Good Humans podcast: ‘It’s not healthy at all’
“At Bondi Rescue, they don’t show anything about suicide, they don’t show anything about mental health.
“The things we were dealing with, especially during Covid, mental health… You have young lifeguards going around on jet skis retrieving bodies.”
Clint admitted: ‘And it’s ugly. He is not healthy at all.
The champion surfer revealed in a candid interview that lifeguards are often faced with suicides.
Clint is among several lifeguards who were removed by Waverley Council, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, last year after failing to disclose his covid vaccination status.
He had been patrolling local beaches for the past four years before receiving an email from the council informing him that his employment had been terminated.
‘There was no ‘sorry for being the bearer of bad news’, it was a very cold outing via email. That was it,’ he told the Courier Mail at the time.
He said he believed their vaccination status was personal and accused the council of pressuring lifeguards to reveal whether or not they were vaccinated.
Clint is among several lifeguards who were sacked by Waverley Council, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, last year after failing to disclose his Covid vaccination status.
He asserted that the council could have handled the terminations better, and criticized the decision to notify its lifeguards by email.
“We were on the front lines throughout the pandemic when they made us close the beaches and have left us covered in blood for rescuing people and doing suicide rescues from rocks,” he said.
“To be treated this way is very disappointing.”
Clint said that the abrupt termination of his role had left him financially and emotionally damaged and that he was seeing a psychologist.
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He had been patrolling local beaches for the past four years before receiving an email from the council revealing that his job had been laid off.