{"id":566097,"date":"2026-03-26T18:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566097\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:10:19","slug":"woman-dies-after-being-pulled-unresponsive-from-water-on-lord-howe-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/566097\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after being pulled unresponsive from water on Lord Howe Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">A woman has drowned after being pulled unresponsive from the water at a popular tourist spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Emergency services were called to a beach on Lord Howe Island, <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/nsw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NSW<\/a>, about 10.30am on Wednesday following reports of a person in distress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Members of the public pulled the 54-year-old woman ashore and began CPR before police and hospital staff arrived to assist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Despite efforts to revive her, she was taken to hospital where she was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-178igh4-StyledParagraph e1s06mna1\">Know the news with the 7NEWS app: <a class=\"css-h2mhmv-StyledContextualLink e1s06mna0\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/app?utm_source=7NEWS&amp;utm_medium=contextual-link-app&amp;utm_campaign=7news-app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download today Arrow<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Officers from the <a class=\"css-1lg16vp-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/nsw-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NSW Police<\/a> Force have launched an investigation into the circumstances of the incident and will prepare a report for the coroner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1n6q21n-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The World Heritage-listed island, located about 600km off the NSW coast in the Tasman Sea, is renowned for its crystal-clear waters, coral reefs and world-class snorkelling.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/charges-laid-against-two-teens-over-cairns-bus-stop-rampage-as-fourth-victim-allegedly-threatened-with-knife-c-22050187\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Teenagers charged over bus stop attack injuring several, including Good Samaritan<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><a class=\"css-6fiqrm-StyledLinkWrapper e1y7kr221\" href=\"https:\/\/7news.com.au\/news\/sydney-teacher-arrested-and-charged-after-allegedly-trying-to-pay-teenage-girl-for-sexually-explicit-content-c-22050953\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Teacher arrested after allegedly grooming teen girl<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-xp0jgm-StyledTimeToRead e1y7kr223\">1 min read<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman has drowned after being pulled unresponsive from the water at a popular tourist spot. Emergency services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,8984,44,5847,4277],"class_list":{"0":"post-566097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-disaster-and-emergency","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-nsw-news","13":"tag-nsw-police"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566097","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=566097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}