{"id":422553,"date":"2026-01-19T04:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422553\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:28:12","slug":"man-injured-in-40-metre-cliff-fall-at-black-rock-in-melbournes-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422553\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured in 40 metre cliff fall at Black Rock in Melbourne’s south"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man is in hospital after falling about 40 metres down a cliff at a beach in Melbourne’s south.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old suffered spinal, arm and leg injuries after falling onto a ledge at Half Moon Bay in Black Rock about 8:30pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Fire Rescue Victoria’s (FRV) high angle rescue team joined State Emergency Service crews and paramedics as they attempted to reach the man.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FRV Senior Station Officer Tyson Scurrah said the ledge was about 5 metres above the ground, which posed a further challenge for crews trying to treat him and bring him down safely.<\/p>\n

“We were required to go down there and set up in very difficult terrain,” he told ABC Radio Melbourne.<\/p>\n

“It’s all sandstone so nothing too stable for us to anchor our ropes off.”<\/p>\n

He said the teams rigged up a system that allowed paramedics to stabilise the patient and then lower him to the sand and walk him out along the beach.<\/p>\n

“He’s a very lucky person.”<\/p>\n

The rescue took about half an hour.<\/p>\n

The man was then transferred to hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

The night-time beach rescue posed a challenge for rescuers. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

The rescue happened on the same day a man aged in his 20s suffered serious injuries after falling from a a cliff at Mount Martha, about 50 kilometres to the south of Black Rock.<\/p>\n

Rescue crews were called to The Pillars rock formations about 5:15pm.<\/p>\n

He was flown to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious but stable condition.<\/p>\n

Just days earlier, a woman fell off a cliff in Beaumaris \u2014 a suburb neighbouring Black Rock.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She remains in a critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n

There were also a number of similar rescues at beaches in Victoria in December<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Two<\/p>\n

Lifesaving Victoria rescues a paddleboarder who got into difficulty at Carrum Beach on Sunday. (Supplied: Carrum Surf Life Saving Club)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, lifesavers carried out multiple rescues of paddleboarders around Melbourne yesterday as unusual easterly winds caught beachgoers unawares.<\/p>\n

Carrum Surf Lifesavers pulled seven paddleboarders back to shore and Lifesaving Victoria’s watercraft rescued another two.<\/p>\n

The club’s Ben Rooks said there were also multiple rescues at neighbouring Chelsea, Aspendale and Bonbeach.<\/p>\n

“People would go out within what they felt was their comfort zone and then suddenly realise, a bit like when you go for a bike ride and you’ve got a tail wind when you go out but then you’ve got a headwind when on the way back and suddenly you realise you’re struggling a bit,” Mr Rooks said.<\/p>\n

He said most of the rescues were people aged in their 20s but there were some children rescued after drifting out into Port Phillip.<\/p>\n

“If you’ve got children in the water, always keep them within arm’s length so you can grab them if something happens,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in hospital after falling about 40 metres down a cliff at a beach in Melbourne’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,222297,222296,222298,44,222299,1157,151289],"class_list":["post-422553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beach-rescue","tag-cliff-fall","tag-high-angle-rescue","tag-news","tag-paddleboarder","tag-rescue","tag-state-emergency-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422553","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=422553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}