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An off-duty NSW police officer has reportedly drowned in a rip after saving the lifetime of a teenage boy at a seashore on the NSW South Coast.
Surf Life Savers have been known as after a person turned caught in a rip at Handkerchief Seashore, south of Narooma, about 1.30pm on New Yr’s Day.
After they arrived, onlookers instructed them the person went into the ocean to rescue a teenage boy, however after saving the teenager he had disappeared underneath water, Surf Life Saving NSW Steven Pearce mentioned.
A helicopter despatched from Moruya noticed the person. He was pulled from the rip by lifesavers, however they might not revive him and he died on the scene.
“It is a actually, actually tragic incident and we now have quite a few circumstances annually … the place somebody goes into the rescue they usually, in flip, change into the sufferer and the particular person they went to rescue efficiently escapes the rip they have been caught in,” Mr Pearce mentioned.
A number of information shops have reported that the person who died was an off-duty police officer. AAP has sought a press release from the NSW Police.
With heat temperatures driving 1000’s of individuals to the state’s seashores this summer season, NSW lifesavers have already completed greater than 1000 rescues since Christmas, which is a file.
“We have by no means seen this earlier than,” Mr Pearce mentioned.
“The first message right this moment, significantly as a result of it is such a bumper day for the seashore is: we’re urging individuals to go to a patrolled location, and that is anyplace with a crimson and yellow flag flying and the place our lifesavers, and our lifeguards, are on responsibility.”
-AAP
