{"id":329436,"date":"2025-12-05T13:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329436\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:08:10","slug":"suspected-human-remains-found-at-beach-where-swimmer-went-missing-near-south-west-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329436\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected human remains found at beach where swimmer went missing near South West Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say a member of the public has located what appear to be human remains at a beach on the New South Wales Mid North Coast where a swimmer was swept out to sea five days ago.<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old Sydney school leaver was swimming with friends off Little Bay Beach in Arakoon, near South West Rocks, when he was dragged out to sea by a rip on Sunday<\/a> afternoon.<\/p>\n

Police said he was a recent graduate of The Kings School in Sydney and was on a schoolies trip with friends to celebrate the end of HSC exams.<\/p>\n

They reported that his friends and bystanders attempted to reach him.<\/p>\n

Little Bay Beach is an unpatrolled remote beach and a difficult area to navigate.<\/p>\n

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The Westpac Rescue Helicopter assisted in the multi-agency search. (ABC Mid North Coast: Sophia McCaughan)<\/p>\n

A large scale multi-agency search ran for several days, before scaling back to a police marine command search yesterday.<\/p>\n

At about 7.30am today police were called to the same beach after reports of the discovery.<\/p>\n

The remains have been taken for forensic examination and a report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n

The discovery comes after the death of a 59-year-old man who drowned a week ago at Racecourse Beach, near Crescent Head on the Mid North Coast.<\/p>\n

That occurred a day after a Swiss woman died and a man was severely injured during a shark attack at Crowdy Bay<\/a>, further south on the Mid North Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a member of the public has located what appear to be human remains at a beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[184473,64,63,184470,184472,44,1158,165554,7452,184469,184471],"class_list":["post-329436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-18-year-old-school-leaver-sydney","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-drownings","tag-little-bay-beach","tag-news","tag-police","tag-schoolies","tag-search","tag-south-west-rocks-missing-swimmer","tag-suspected-human-remains-found"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436","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=329436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}