On Saturday morning along the sands of the world-famous bay, Bondi surf lifesavers fanned out, holding hands with lifeguards in a moving tribute to the 15 people who were killed there last week.<\/p>\n
In a two-minute silence at 8am, only the sound of the waves could be heard.<\/p>\n
A human chain of surf lifesavers stood along Bondi Beach.(ABC News: Che Chorley)
Surf lifesavers hug during a moment of remembrance for the Bondi victims.\u00a0(ABC News: Che Chorley\u00a0)
Calm waters of Bondi Beach on Saturday.(ABC News: Che Chorley)
Surf lifesavers hold a moment of silence for the victims.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
As the silence ended, hundreds of people watching on from the promenade broke out in applause, before the Westpac Rescue chopper performed a fly-by.<\/p>\n
This was also a chance for the lifesavers and lifeguards, many of whom responded to the shooting, to come together to reflect and lean on each other.<\/p>\n
The Westpac helicopter did a fly-by during the tribute.(ABC News: Che Chorley)
North Bondi Life Saving Club’s Duncan McGeoch says it was “healing” to listen to the waves.<\/p>\n
Surf lifesaver Duncan McGeoch described the event as “healing”.<\/p>\n
“Listening to the waves and letting the events wash away,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Standing shoulder to shoulder, I think a lot of those first responders on the beach today basically bridged the gap between ambulances coming [on the day of the attack].<\/p>\n
“It was really nice to be there with everybody who was involved as well.”<\/p>\n
The event gave lifesavers a chance to begin healing.(ABC News: Che Chorley)
Surf lifesavers gather for the tribute event on Saturday.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
Across the country, surf lifesavers have joined the Bondi clubs for three minutes of silence.<\/p>\n
Standing shoulder to shoulder, clubs looked out to sea from their local beaches this morning, before starting regular patrol duties at 8am.<\/p>\n
Arcadian Surf Life Saving Club at Townsville, Queensland, stood in spirit with the Bondi clubs.(Facebook)
Gove Peninsula Surf Life Saving Club in the Northern Territory also pay tribute.(Facebook)<\/p>\n
Surf Life Saving Australia president Peter Agnew, who was among those at Bondi Beach this morning, said the mood on the ground was a sombre one.<\/p>\n
He said many of the lifesavers and guards who attended today’s beach tribute had been first responders last weekend.<\/p>\n
Surf lifesavers hold hands in a tribute to the terror attack victims.(ABC News: Che Chorley)
Surf lifesavers offer support to each other.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
“They are feeling quite fragile. A number of them experienced a number of things that were quite traumatic,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Both [North Bondi and Bondi] clubs opened their doors at the time of that crisis and welcomed the community in for safe shelter.<\/p>\n
“It was a fairly chaotic scene. A number of our best trained lifesavers also left the club and went into a very large triage area supporting the people who had been injured.”<\/p>\n
The Bondi Surf Life Saving Club was a place of refuge when the shooting took place.(ABC News: Che Chorley)
Floral tributes for the Bondi terror victims.(ABC News: Che Chorley)<\/p>\n
Mr Agnew said it was important for the community to move on from the tragedy, without forgetting what had occurred.<\/p>\n
“I think we should always reflect on history,” he said.<\/p>\n
“This is a time today to reflect on what’s happened, to respect the community and to acknowledge what’s happened.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of surf lifesavers, many of whom were among the first responders who rushed to help when the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[109814,29064,110685,108714,108716,110687,114,268,70600,85,46,110688,266,267,110686,110684,43545],"class_list":["post-194279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-bondi-attack","tag-bondi-beach","tag-bondi-massacre","tag-bondi-shooting","tag-bondi-terror-attack","tag-bondi-victims","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-grieving","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lifesavers-tribute","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-surf-life-saving-australia","tag-surf-life-saving-club","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}