{"id":694166,"date":"2026-05-25T20:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694166\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:02:15","slug":"missing-swimmer-sydney-man-missing-off-little-bay-beach-in-wild-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/694166\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing swimmer Sydney: Man missing off Little Bay beach in wild weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man thought to be in his 30s was seen in difficulty about 100 metres offshore at 11am today at Little Bay Beach near Maroubra.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffOfficers from Eastern Beaches Police Area Command, along with Marine Area Command, PolAir, Marine Rescue NSW, Surf Life Saving NSW and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, started searching.<\/p>\n<p>Marine Rescue NSW Inspector Joel Pemberton said the organisation&#8217;s rescue vessels Botany Hacking 30 and Middle Harbour 30 were deployed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both Marine Rescue NSW vessels are working alongside water police, searching an area from Little Bay Beach to Cape Banks in the south,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sea conditions offshore are unfavourable, with a three- to five- metre south-east rolling swell.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man thought to be in his 30s was seen in difficulty about 100 metres offshore at 11am&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-694166","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\/694166","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=694166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}