{"id":368813,"date":"2025-12-24T12:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368813\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:22:12","slug":"search-for-fisherman-missing-off-nsw-south-coast-scaled-back-after-third-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/368813\/","title":{"rendered":"Search for fisherman missing off NSW South Coast scaled back after third day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>T\ufeffhe multi-agency search for a rock fisherman who was last seen on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"NSW\">NSW<\/a> South Coast on Monday afternoon has been scaled back.Over a dozen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/maritime\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Marine\">Marine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/rescue\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Rescue\">Rescue<\/a> NSW volunteers from units across NSW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/illawarra\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"South Coast\">South Coast<\/a> have been searching for a man who was last seen at Bushrangers Bay, Shell Cove, on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The search was scaled back at about 1pm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/19d0053d-f886-41ce-82d4-c262af8e3079.jpeg\"   alt=\"The search was scaled back at 1pm today.\"\/>The search was scaled back at 1pm today. (Nine)<\/p>\n<p>Marine Rescue NSW Inspector Glenn Sullivan said that two rescue vessels resumed the search at 8am today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Marine Rescue NSW crews are searching areas under the direction of Marine Area Command.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A north-easterly is starting to whip up, which will make it uncomfortable for our crews, but they will continue searching until instructed otherwise,&#8221; Inspector Sullivan said earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services were first called after belongings were found on the rocks of Bushrangers Bay at about 7.40pm on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffOfficers arrived and were told a 34-year-old man was last seen fishing on the rock shelf at about 2pm.<\/p>\n<p>A search commenced shortly after, until about 11.30pm, when it was suspended to resume the following day.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThe search continued yesterday morning, with assistance from the NSW Police Marine Area Command, NSW Police divers, Marine Rescue NSW, Surf Life Savers, Lifesaver helicopter and State Emergency Service.<\/p>\n<p>It was later concluded at about 3.15pm due to poor weather conditions.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>NSW Police Marine Area Command and Surf Life Saving will continue patrols over the following days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"T\ufeffhe multi-agency search for a rock fisherman who was last seen on NSW South Coast on Monday afternoon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-368813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368813","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=368813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}