29/10/2026
🇦🇺🇮🇳BULLI GOES BOLLY! 🇮🇳🇦🇺
Taking Bulli Surf Life Saving Club’s lifesaving expertise, knowledge and experience to the international stage - again!
Bulli SLSC President and Life Member Jamie Caldwell, together with his family Alicia, Taj, Zoe and Shae (all members of Bulli SLSC as well) recently returned from an eight-week deployment to Goa, India, supporting the development of Drishti Lifesaving, the lifesaving service responsible for protecting Goa’s beaches across a 193km coastline.
Throughout the program, the Caldwell family had direct involvement with more than 200 lifeguards, delivering and supporting capability development across:
🌊 Surf swimming, fitness and rescue board skills
🚤 Rescue techniques, powered rescue craft and search and rescue operations
🏊 Water confidence, swimming technique and endurance
👥 Leadership, professionalism and operational capability
🎓 Train-the-trainer development and mentoring
🛟 Supporting the next generation of professional lifeguards
A major focus was building the capability of Drishti’s own trainers and leaders, ensuring the skills and knowledge shared can continue benefiting the service well beyond the eight-week program.
Jamie first travelled to Goa in 2008 to help establish the lifesaving service, making this return nearly 18 years later an especially significant opportunity to contribute to its continued development.
From Bulli Beach to the beaches of India in Goa, sharing lifesaving skills, strengthening international partnerships and helping save lives beyond our shores!
Drishti Marine
Indians in Sydney
Surf Life Saving Illawarra
Surf Life Saving NSW
Alison Byrnes MP
Maryanne Stuart
Ryan Park MP
