{"id":456027,"date":"2026-02-03T16:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456027\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T16:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T16:37:14","slug":"body-found-in-search-for-missing-swimmer-in-sydneys-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/456027\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in search for missing swimmer in Sydney&#8217;s east"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search involving police, assisted by the Marine Area Command, LifeSaver21 helicopter, Surf Life Saving, and Marine Rescue NSW, began but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>The search resumed at about 8am today, and at about 12.20pm, the body of a man was found.<\/p>\n<p>While a formal process is yet to confirm the \ufeffidentity of the body, it is believed to be that of the missing swimmer.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old was swimming with friends at the southern end of Maroubra Beach on Sunday at about 4pm, but he failed to return to shore.<\/p>\n<p>A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A search involving police, assisted by the Marine Area Command, LifeSaver21 helicopter, Surf Life Saving, and Marine Rescue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-456027","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\/456027","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=456027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}