"We've got serious rips here. People just kind of bound into the water, it looks great, it's nice and calm and then boom - the rip takes you out," Mark said.
"It's not a question of if it's going to happen, its a question of when it's going to happen," he said of a future drowning incidents.
He said the volunteer surf lifeguards ended their patrols just after the Easter weekend.
"The guards aren't here, because they're not funded. You can imagine if a tourist comes ... All they need to do is keep a guard on, the weekends at least.
"The guards are frustrated, because there's nothing they can do. They have the same problem over at Cathedral Cove. We have hundreds of thousands of people come here every year, and its just nuts.
"Someone's going to drown soon, it'll probably happen in the next couple of months."
He said a funding needed to be found to keep lifeguards on duty year-round, and help improve tourist facilities at the seaside town.