{"id":649251,"date":"2026-05-04T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649251\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:24:15","slug":"three-dead-search-under-way-after-northern-nsw-boating-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649251\/","title":{"rendered":"Three dead, search under way after northern NSW boating tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people have died after a yacht and a <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/rescue\" title=\"rescue\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rescue<\/a> boat sent to help it got into trouble in heavy conditions off the northern <a href=\"http:\/\/9news.com.au\/new-south-wales\" title=\"NSW\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NSW<\/a> coast.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the republic called emergency services about 6.15pm to report a yacht having difficulties off the South Ballina break wall.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Marine Rescue NSW crew responded but their boat rolled while crossing the Ballina bar in &#8220;heavy conditions&#8221; and it was believed the yacht sank.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b262aa72-0148-4dea-8277-63812b69c48b.png\"   alt=\"Search and rescue team look for missing surfer Darcy\"\/>Police said Marine Rescue NSW crew responded but their boat rolled while crossing the Ballina bar. (FILE) (Marine Rescue NSW)<\/p>\n<p>Police said three people died and four made it to shore but it was unclear how many had been on the yacht.<\/p>\n<p>Water police and general duties officers are on scene as Marine Area Command coordinates a search helped by the AMSAR Challenger jet and Westpac Rescue Helicopter from Lismore.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were checking the four people who made it to shore but police said none of them were believed to have life-threatening injuries.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died after a yacht and a rescue boat sent to help it got into trouble&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-649251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649251","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=649251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}