A father has drowned after saving his son from a rip on the NSW mid-north coast.
The fifty three-yr-previous man was swimming together with his thirteen-yr-previous son off Boomerang Seashore about 20 kilometres south of Forster at roughly 2.50pm on Tuesday.
The teenager started to expertise difficulties within the water and his father swam over to assist, in accordance with preliminary inquiries by police.
It’s understood the boy was caught in a rip about 50 metres off shore.
Because of his father’s actions the boy was capable of attain land safely, however he then discovered himself in dire want of help.
Surf lifesavers and paramedics tried to resuscitate the person however they have been unable to revive him.
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The person was a father of two, NBN Information reported.
Detectives from Manning Nice Lakes Native Space Command are investigating the occasions main as much as the person’s dying and will put together a report for the coroner.
It is the second drowning in sixteen days on the seashore, following the disappearance of a 22-yr-previous Orange man, Terry Brown, whose physique has not been recovered.
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