{"id":532749,"date":"2026-03-11T07:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:05:11","slug":"man-and-women-die-at-popular-beach-in-nsw-illawarra-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532749\/","title":{"rendered":"Man and women die at popular beach in NSW Illawarra region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A husband and wife have died \ufeffafter they were pulled from the water at a popular <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"NSW beach\">NSW beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two off-duty nurses and a young man saw the \ufeff66-year-old man and 64-year-old woman struggling in the water at Shellharbour Beach about 11.10am and pulled them onto the sand.<\/p>\n<p>They gave the couple CPR before paramedics arrived at the scene off Boollawarroo Parade in Shell Cove.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bbaf5113-efd9-4c5c-bf12-d87ed69923f0.jpeg\"   alt=\"Emergency services were called to the scene after the husband and wife were pulled from the water.\"\/>Emergency services were called to the scene after the husband and wife were pulled from the water. (WIN News)<\/p>\n<p>Lake Illawarra Police District Inspector Luke Geradts said the couple were unable to be revived and died at the scene despite the best efforts of everyone at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to take the opportunity to commend \ufeffthe members of the public who assisted in the initial response, including female off-duty nurses and a young male, who pulled the couple from the water and gave the couple the best chance of survival,&#8221; Geradts said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although a tragic outcome today, \ufefftheir efforts are to be commended, they really did give the couple the best chance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\ufeffThis is a timely reminder of the dangers and unpredictability of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\ufeffIt&#8217;s a tragic incident and our hearts go out to the family who has lost their loved ones today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b18b47d6-c311-4b06-b9ef-c3d65ac910ff.jpeg\"   alt=\"A husband and wife have died &#xFEFF;after they were pulled from the water at a popular NSW beach. Two off-duty nurses and a young man saw the &#xFEFF;66-year-old man and 64-year-old woman struggling in the water at Shellharbour Beach about 11.10am and pulled them onto the sand.\"\/>Police described the deaths as &#8220;tragic&#8221; and offered their condolences to the couple&#8217;s family. (WIN News)Local newspaper the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.illawarramercury.com.au\/story\/9195465\/two-people-pulled-unresponsive-from-shellharbour-ocean-illawarra\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Illawarra Mercury\">Illawarra Mercury<\/a> reported the family of the man and woman watched on in tears as emergency crews tried to save the swimmers.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>A witness told the publication she had been walking along the beach with her friend when the pair came across emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was pretty calm, everyone knew what they were doing,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a mad panic, everyone just switched into what they were doing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It puts it all into perspective how quick things can go wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A report will be prepared for the information of the coroner.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>She\ufeffllharbour Beach is a popular tourist hotspot located in the NSW Illawarra region.<\/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 husband and wife have died \ufeffafter they were pulled from the water at a popular NSW beach.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-532749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532749","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=532749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}