{"id":304222,"date":"2025-11-23T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304222\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:10:08","slug":"search-resumes-for-missing-18-year-old-swimmer-at-norah-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/304222\/","title":{"rendered":"Search resumes for missing 18-year-old swimmer at Norah Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A land and sea search for a young man swept out to sea on the NSW Central Coast has resumed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency service crews were called to Norah Head at about 8:15pm on Sunday after a sand bar off the Soldiers Beach Surf Life Saving Club collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A 16-year-old boy and an 18-year-old man managed to get back to shore, but two other 18-year-olds were swept out to sea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Two surfers rescued one of them, but the other disappeared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A search involving the region&#8217;s rescue helicopter, water police and Marine Rescue volunteers continued until 11:30pm, and patrols of the foreshore continued throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The full-scale search was due to resume at 7am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Jim Wright from Lake Macquarie Marine Rescue said he expected jetskis and helicopters to be involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s very important we get the services out there quickly [to] carry out the search,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police said they were supporting the missing man&#8217;s family and keeping them updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A land and sea search for a young man swept out to sea on the NSW Central Coast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,39868,23979,45318,44,140201,173580,7452],"class_list":["post-304222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-collapse","tag-drowning","tag-missing","tag-news","tag-norah-head","tag-sandbank","tag-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304222","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=304222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}