Surf Life Saving Australia + QF partnership - points earning opportunity

[chrispy3276]

Qantas has announced a four-year partnership with Surf Life Saving Australia to promote water safety.

As part of the partnership, Beach Passport has been launched - a 10-minute online course that provides knowledge around water safety. Every person who completes the course by 30 April 2025 will receive 150 QFF points, and 1 person will win 1 million QFF points for completing it.

QF Newsroom: https://www.qantasnewsroom.com.au/m...up-with-qantas-to-make-waves-in-beach-safety/
Beach Passport: https://beachpassport.org.au/

 

[Mattg]

Thanks, have completed the course and got my "beach passport". Learned a couple of things I didn't know about rips, too.

 

[QF WP]

As a former Lifesaver and avid watcher of the SLS carnivals, great to see such a partnership in place.

 

[Lynda2475]

Done!

Happy to say got 100% on all questions first go, guess I retained all that knowledge from getting my Bronze star, Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross from back in my highschool days.

 

[k_sheep]

As a life-long beach goer I actually learned something.... I never noticed that rips have ripples around them. Will check it out on the weekend.

 

[QF WP]

Rips have no waves and the water returning out is generally travelling faster because there are no waves, thus the rippled/washing machine effect. Where that water is travelling over uneven sand, it gives way and that’s how people find themselves on a sand bank one minute and quickly in deep water the next. They instinctively try to swim against the current, redouble the efforts as they panic and then cry out or look to others to save them, or drown.

Nothing like a group rescue to get the adrenaline pumping.

I’ll have to get my 150 FF points.

 

[Big John]

Done.

I'm not a beach person, but am glad that I now know what a rip is. It always puzzled me !

 

[kangarooflyer88]

Having been rescued by a life guard in Santa Monica in 2022, I must say those rip tides are no laughing matter. Very easy to get caught up in one of you aren’t paying attention.

The key thing to remember in those incidents is not to panic and just stay afloat. Eventually you’ll be pushed far enough away that the rip’s force goes away and you can swim in a direction perpendicular to the rip.

-RooFlyer88