{"id":219519,"date":"2025-10-23T05:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219519\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:03:08","slug":"british-man-drowns-in-australia-after-surfboard-snaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/219519\/","title":{"rendered":"British man drowns in Australia after surfboard snaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police said they had alerted the public to stay out of the water on Wednesday due to high winds, with the state experiencing wind gusts of up to 130km.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Detective Inspector Melissa Nixon said the surfer, 36, had &#8220;minimal experience&#8221; and &#8220;it appears he may have only been learning to surf&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The weather conditions yesterday were obviously not appropriate to be in the water surfing, whether you&#8217;re experienced or not,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The other man, aged 43, saw his friend was in distress and struggling in the water after his surfboard broke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;ve actually jumped into the water to help and conditions were that bad, he&#8217;s obviously succumbed to the conditions of the waves and the water,&#8221; Nixon said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She described the scenes of the two men being retrieved from the water as confronting and said the two deaths had been preventable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She urged the public to not go surfing or swimming under treacherous conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said they had alerted the public to stay out of the water on Wednesday due to high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-219519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}