{"id":4728,"date":"2010-11-12T02:01:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/student-in-ocean-reef-rescue\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T13:06:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:06:38","slug":"student-in-ocean-reef-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/student-in-ocean-reef-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Student in Ocean Reef beach rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

A second-year Engineering and Commerce student has proven his skills reach far beyond the classroom by helping to save a man\u2019s life recently.<\/p>\n

Volunteer surf lifesaver Brodie Edwards was on patrol with his father near Ocean Reef last week when the pair noticed a group of people standing on the beach waving them down.<\/p>\n

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Engineering and Commerce student Brodie Edwards helped save a man's life<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After landing their boat and wading to shore, they noticed a man lying prone on the ground, suffering a heart attack.<\/p>\n

Brodie immediately sprung into action and began CPR.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was thinking, is he alive? Is he going to die?\u201d the 19-year-old told Curtin News.<\/p>\n

After Brodie worked on the man for 10 minutes, ambulance officers arrived and continued his work until a helicopter airlifted the man to hospital where he later recovered.<\/p>\n

Brodie said the rescue was the first time in more than a decade of lifesaving that he\u2019d had to resuscitate somebody.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he went off in the helicopter it was (a feeling of) relief, but it feels pretty weird,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say, \u2018Oh you helped save a guy\u2019s life\u2019, but it doesn\u2019t feel real.<\/p>\n

“I guess with all the adrenaline and the emotion you kind of feel numb.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brodie volunteers his lifesaving skills on weekends, but after his recent experience says he is considering taking on more lifesaving work in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just good being at the beach, and being there if anything goes wrong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlus I do it with my dad, so it\u2019s good to spend time with him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve looked into doing paid patrols during the week as well, but I kind of like volunteering.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Teenage Curtin student helps save the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":"","photographer":"","media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 15:35:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}