“Thanks to you, we avoided the worst, we almost ended the evening with a new drama, you all were up to the task.” This Monday, August 24 in the morning, the mayor of Anglet, Claude Olive, visited the lifeguards (MNS) who rescued and saved the six jet ski hikers, as well as their instructor, Cavaliers beach, Friday evening .
It was a little after 7:30 pm The MNS had finished their service, but they quickly put on their clothes to go and look for the castaways off the Cavaliers. “We finished the surveillance of the beach, we put away the equipment while keeping an eye on the Jet-Ski moving behind the dike. There were very strong waves, and there, I saw a Jet-Ski tip over. J ‘I called everyone back and we got back to work, “says Enora Queffeulou, 21 years old and MNS in Anglet for four seasons.
Joël Badina, 33, and MNS for eight years in Anglet, takes back the buoy and fins to go get them. “I went out on my own to retrieve them, I had to go quickly. Two of my colleagues came to help me on a Jet-Ski. The ocean was dismantled, it was probably the day in summer when the ocean was the strongest. We must also underline the mobilization of the staff of the Epi Café, next door, who helped us to extract from the water those who were most affected, while waiting for the arrival of help. . They were great “.
“A sacred courage”
Samu, firefighters, police and gendarmerie helicopter quickly intervened on the spot. “They fell on the best because it took a lot of courage to intervene in these conditions, adds Claude Olive. The unconsciousness of some can endanger others. I am very proud of you and you can be proud of you.”
Claude Olive now wants “to find out from the Jet-Ski company to find out how they were able to let people go in such a strong ocean”.
Joël Badina recognizes a “trying” season this summer with a lot of people, indiscipline and “very little respite because the weather was fine almost every day”. The frequentation of Anglet beaches in July is estimated to be 35% higher than in 2019.
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