Surf Life Saving New Zealand
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Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) is the organisation that controls surf lifesaving in New Zealand.
[edit] Purpose
The purpose of SLSNZ is to protect people from drowning at New Zealand's many beaches. Surf Life Saving clubs patrol designated beaches. Patrolled areas are designated by yellow and red flags. As of November 2005, no people have ever drowned while swimming between the flags.[1]
[edit] Regions
SLSNZ is broken up into the following regional organisational bodies:
- Northern web site
- Bay of Plenty web site
- Taranaki web site
- Gisborne
- Western Districts
- Hawkes Bay
- Wellington
- Canterbury web site
- Otago web site