📅 Event Details
Date: Saturday, 23 November 2025
Saturday | 8am–12pm | Trigg Beach
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Waves of Readiness returns to Trigg Beach this weekend — a large-scale, multi-agency emergency response training exercise designed to strengthen operational readiness across Western Australia’s key coastal, aviation, military and medical response teams.
This four-hour training block brings together:
- Trigg Island Surf Life Saving Club
- ADF Reserves – 3 Squadron Pilbara Regiment
- WA Water Police
- WA Police Air Wing
- Whitfords Volunteer Marine Rescue
- St John Ambulance
The exercise focuses on inter-agency coordination, shared capability development, and best-practice emergency response across surf, marine and aviation environments.
Purpose of the Training
Each organisation contributes specialist expertise:
- Surf Life Saving – surf-zone rescue, IRB capability, casualty management in dynamic surf conditions
- ADF Pilbara Regiment – vessel handling, navigation, disciplined operational coordination
- WA Water Police & Volunteer Marine Rescue – offshore search, technical recoveries, marine operations
- WA Police Air Wing – aerial search capability and helicopter winching operations
- St John Ambulance – medical triage, patient care, and inter-agency handover
By training together, agencies build confidence, cohesion and a shared understanding essential for multi-agency responses to real coastal emergencies.
Training Schedule (8:00am – 12:00pm)
8:00am – 9:30am
Surf Negotiation Training
Joint drills involving Trigg Island SLSC Inflatable Rescue Boats (IRBs) and ADF Rigid Inflatable Vessels navigating challenging surf conditions.
9:30am – 10:30am
Casualty Recovery & Transfer Exercises
Coordinated rescue scenarios with Surf Life Saving, ADF, WA Water Police and Whitfords Volunteer Marine Rescue, focusing on vessel-to-vessel transfers and recovery techniques.
10:30am
Police Air Wing Helicopter Demonstration
A live display of helicopter winching capability and aerial extraction procedures.
11:00am – 11:30am
Search Pattern Training
Participating vessels practise coordinated search formations and offshore marine search operations.
Spectators Welcome!
Members and the public are invited to watch from the Trigg boardwalk or the clubhouse viewing deck between 8:00am and 12:00pm. Expect a morning of action, teamwork, and impressive IRB skills on display.
Why Trigg Island?
Trigg Beach offers a powerful, variable surf environment that provides realistic conditions for high-level emergency response training. As one of Perth’s busiest coastal locations, it is an ideal setting for agencies to test operational capability in a controlled yet challenging real-world environment.
