{"id":436611,"date":"2026-01-25T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:47:10","slug":"desperate-search-for-melbourne-boy-missing-at-venus-bay-on-victorias-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/436611\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate search for Melbourne boy missing at Venus Bay on Victoria&#8217;s coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old Melbourne boy has disappeared while swimming on the South Gippsland coast, sparking a large-scale search.<\/p>\n<p>Danny, whose last name wasn&#8217;t supplied by police, was swimming at No 4 Beach in Venus Bay, about 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, before lunch today.<\/p>\n<p>His family, from Taylors Hill, and members of the public, started searching for him after losing sight of him about 11.30am.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3f6d1037-0ac3-495b-8c54-9c6482826855.jpeg\"   alt=\"\"\/>Danny, whose last name wasn&#8217;t supplied by police, was swimming at No 4 Beach in Venus Bay, about 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, before lunch today. (Victoria Police)<\/p>\n<p>Police said emergency services were called just after 1pm and launched a search involving air wing, water police squad, Coast Guard, State Emergency Service, Life Saving Victoria and other beachgoers.<\/p>\n<p>The search was expected to continue until last night and resume in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Danny was described as about 170 centimetres tall with a thin build, dark, short hair and dark eyes.<\/p>\n<p>He was wearing a navy blue rash vest and navy blue boardshorts with a white stripe when he disappeared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venus Bay&#8217;s tiny population of 500 can surge into the thousands as anglers, surfers and families arrive for holidays, according to Visit Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old Melbourne boy has disappeared while swimming on the South Gippsland coast, sparking a large-scale search. Danny,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-436611","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\/436611","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=436611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}