{"id":649886,"date":"2026-05-04T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649886\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:28:08","slug":"three-die-in-boating-tragedy-off-nsw-coast-after-rescue-boat-rolls-while-trying-to-help-sinking-yacht-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/649886\/","title":{"rendered":"Three die in boating tragedy off NSW coast after rescue boat rolls while trying to help sinking yacht | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Three people are dead after a marine rescue turned deadly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">NSW Police said four people made it to shore after two vessels became stricken in heavy conditions on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Emergency services were contacted about 6.15pm when a yacht was reported to be in difficulties off the South Ballina break wall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cA crew from Marine Rescue NSW responded however their vessel rolled while crossing the Ballina Bar in heavy conditions,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time three people are confirmed deceased, while four made it to shore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unknown how many people were on the yacht. It\u2019s believed the yacht has now sunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Four people were checked with NSW Ambulance paramedics but none were believed to have life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people are dead after a marine rescue turned deadly. NSW Police said four people made it to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-649886","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\/649886","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=649886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}