On Sunday, a fisherman died after flowing from rocks near Sydney, pushed the Easter weekend drowning toll in Australia to six, two more still went missing as large -scale inflammation remained on the country’s east coast.
Emergency services were called in Watamola Beach south of Sydney, where two people were dragged into surf while fishing. The New South Wales Police said that a rescue helicopter dropped both of them from the water, but one cannot be revived. The survivor, a 14 -year -old boy was rushed to the hospital in a stable position.
This latest event combines a serious holiday marked by a string of coastal tragedies in the weekend. Since Good Friday, Dangerous Surf caused three people in New South Wales, a woman near Melbourne and another fisherman in Southern NSW on Saturday. Officers are still searching for two missing persons – another near Melbourne from the coast of Sydney.
Despite warnings, deadly wave activity came Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA), which alerted the beach for dangerous surf conditions in New South Wales and Victoria on Thursday, swollen up to 3.5 meters (11.5 ft) in some areas.
SLSA CEO Adam Veer said, “We know that Australian and visitors in our country prefer to go out of the track to enjoy camps, fishing and other coastal activities.” “But these coastal places can offer danger – some you can see and some you can’t. So we have simple advice: stop, look, survive.”
According to the SLSA, 630 people have died in the last decade, which outlines the risks of enterprise in uncontrolled coastal regions in the last decade. The organization has urged the public to swim only on patrolled beaches and remain clean with rocks during some conditions.
Officials have continued search and rescue operations as they predict large cheers through Mondays.
