By entering Weatherall is raising awareness of mental health and suicide prevention. The skill and organisational ability that at high school resulted in his captaining the second XV carried on when he captained the Otago surf life-saving team and represented Surf Lifesaving New Zealand at four international surf life-saving conferences. It was with this in mind that Weatherall, when he decided about 18 months ago to commit to the Coast to Coast two-day event recognised it as an ideal opportunity to raise awareness of mental health issues and suicide prevention. And with the parallel aim of raising awareness around mental health and suicide prevention.'' ''I'm just raising awareness that we all have physical health but are not conscious of how to take care of our mental health.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 27, 2017 17:26 UTC