He says she only wanted to do the best for the club and the community.
"I know that she's hopefully upstairs with my father and all my family, and they're all looking after her," he says.
That's where we'll end our live coverage.
He says she only wanted to do the best for the club and the community.
"I know that she's hopefully upstairs with my father and all my family, and they're all looking after her," he says.
That's where we'll end our live coverage.
Mr Whimpey says the club has 11,000 nippers coming through at the moment, with the largest youth movement in Australia.
"People don't realise how strong the red and yellow is. We're a very humble organisation," he says.
"Please know that our organization is really here for you, for Queensland to swim between the red and yellow flags.
"Continue to come and enjoy the beach."
Mr Zmuda, who is the head of the Bribie Island nippers, says he wants his group to still feel confident in the water.
"I've got 260 plus kids here every weekend. I want them to feel confident and feel safe in the water every weekend, so I do take that seriously," he says.
"I never wanted a moment like this to happen to anybody and to be my daughter... is a killer. But again, we'll be back because we're strong."
He says along with her surf lifesaving skills, his daughter was also extremely musically talented.
"She was the lead at the St Columbian school as a singer in the play, she was so musically gifted," he says.
"She could hear a piece of music and then pick up and play it at the drop of a heartbeat.
"To have talent taken away right now...that kills me.
"There was one time on a patrol here, not long ago that she was singing. She brought a ukulele and was playing. And I had so many people come up and say that she was so talented as a singer."
Through tears, Steve Zmuda says he doesn't want people to stop coming to the beach because of this.
"When I got the tragic news yesterday, I was extremely gutted, but something that my wife and I want to say is we don't want people stop coming to the beach and enjoying our beach," he says.
"It's a big part of our lives."
SLSQ CEO Dave Whimpey says it has had a huge impact on the lifesaving community right around Australia.
"These incidents do happen. They're quite rare but when it does happen to a lifesaver, a young girl that had everything to live for doing what she loved," he says.
"She was an age manager, so she had a group of young kids that she looked after every weekend.
"She was a highly skilled lifesaver, and she spent her time looking after Queenslanders."
SLSQ CEO Dave Whimpey and Bribie Island surf club members are speaking to the media after the loss of one of their own on Monday.
SLSQ says 17-year-old Charlize Zmuda and her family have been a "cherished part of the surf lifesaving community for a long time and our hearts are broken".