Two different approaches to prevent drownings were launched on Tuesday. One had a touch of Hollywood.
The toddler has been rushed to the Children’s Hospital at Westmead.
Emergency services were searching for a fisherman who reportedly failed to resurface after going into the Nepean River.
The 63-year-old was found unresponsive in the water after a suspected diving incident.
Laith Alaid,11,was washed into the sea at The Entrance while crossing the channel with his father and three younger brothers.
Hoai Nguyen,who died with her two children in the Georges River on Saturday,had “ups and downs” in her mental health,her husband says.
A one-year-old boy has been left without his mother and two siblings after a tragic drowning in Sydney’s south-west.
Emergency services were called to the scene after reports the trio were seen “in distress” in Floyd Bay in Lansvale,with a search and rescue mission ending in tragedy.
Police winched the woman’s body from notoriously dangerous waters off Victoria’s southern coast.
After a 30-minute search of the waters near Rye pier,divers brought the man back to shore,but he couldn’t be revived.
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