A body has been recovered after a boating mishap near Marion Bay, in Tasmania’s south-east.<\/p>\n
Police said around 11.45 am on Wednesday, four people were onboard a 4.5-metre fibreglass half-cabin runabout when it got into difficulty in the Marion Narrows waterway.<\/p>\n
“Initial suggestions were that the boat had capsized, we now know that the boat appears to have a wave or some chop from another vessel and that has then caused three of the four occupants to be thrown into the water,” Commander Jason Elmer said.<\/p>\n
“A nearby vessel has come to the aid of the persons in the water and two males were taken from the water,” Commander Elmer said.<\/p>\n
He said the third person in the water “couldn’t initially be located”.<\/p>\n
A large-scale search and rescue operation was then launched to find the fourth person, a Tasmanian woman in her seventies, police said.<\/p>\n
She was located deceased a short time later.<\/p>\n
“This is a tragic outcome, and our thoughts and condolences go to their family,” Commander Elmer said.<\/p>\n
“And we also wish to thank those members of the public who came to assist.”<\/p>\n
Police said the four adults were all known to each other and were enjoying a day on the water.<\/p>\n
“They were wearing personal flotation devices so they were adhering to all safety requirements \u2026 this is a tragic accident,” Commander Elmer said.<\/p>\n
“This appears to be a freak accident where they’ve been thrown into the water.”<\/p>\n
Two of the people involved were taken to hospital with non life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A body has been recovered after a boating mishap near Marion Bay, in Tasmania’s south-east. Police said around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,1293,75,5405,271141,45318,128,8539],"class_list":["post-547991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-body","tag-environment","tag-found","tag-marion-bay","tag-missing","tag-science","tag-tas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547991","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=547991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}