{"id":100539,"date":"2025-08-27T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100539\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T21:09:13","slug":"search-to-resume-for-20-year-old-off-port-macquarie-on-nsw-mid-north-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/100539\/","title":{"rendered":"Search to resume for 20-year-old off port Macquarie on NSW Mid North Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The search for a <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/swimming\" title=\"swimmer\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">swimmer<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/missing\" title=\"missing\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">missing<\/a> off the <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" title=\"NSW\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NSW<\/a> Mid North Coast will resume tomorrow morning after an &#8220;uncomfortable&#8221; hours-long operation failed to find him.The 20-year-old was seen at Shelly Beach in <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/port-macquarie\" title=\"Port Macquarie\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Port Macquarie<\/a> about 3.40pm today.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told police he was seen getting into the water but didn&#8217;t resurface.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0317367f-bbef-44d6-9681-0ff93be88548.png\"   alt=\"\"\/>Two Marine Rescue Port Macquarie vessels will rejoin the search for a missing swimmer. (Marine Rescue NSW)<\/p>\n<p>Police, Marine Area Command, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, NSW Marine Rescue and Surf Life Saving NSW all set out on a search but couldn&#8217;t find him before nightfall.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Rescue NSW Inspector John Murray the Port Macquarie branch supplied two boats and two jet-skis to the operation, searching the rocks at both ends of Shelly Beach and 5.5 kilometres out into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conditions weren&#8217;t favourable, with a two-and-a-half metre swell,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was uncomfortable for our volunteer crews, but they remained on the water until being stood down for the day at 6pm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two Marine Rescue Port Macquarie vessels will rejoin the search at 8am.<\/p>\n<p>Police described the missing man as of Mediterranean\/Middle Eastern appearance and wearing black swim shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The search for a swimmer missing off the NSW Mid North Coast will resume tomorrow morning after an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-100539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}