Tahmoor Mermaid Pool: Blayd Lyddieth remembered after drowning
A teenager who died after jumping into a rockpool in Sydney’s southwest has been remembered by his family and friends as someone who would put a smile on your face.
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A teenager who died after jumping into a rock pool in the Macarthur Region, southwest of Sydney, has been remembered by friends and family as someone who knew how to put a smile on anyone’s face.
Rescue teams from Camden police, paramedics and firefighters spent five hours trying to find Blayd Lyddieth, 18, who drowned after jumping into the Mermaid Pools at Tahmoor on Thursday.
His cousin, Brandan Peagam said the hardest part of this ordeal was watching his cousin leave him “for a better life”.
“I love you every single day and there will never be a day that I will let this down!,” he wrote on social media.
“You’re in a much better place now and you deserve everything you get up there.
“Fly high you beautiful angel you will forever and always be missed by family and most of all myself. I miss you already little cuz (sic) man.”
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It is now the third death at the pools since 2014.
In 2016, a 27-year-old man died after jumping into the water with friends and in 2014 a 38-year-old woman also died at the same spot.
Emergency services were told by Blayd’s friends at the rock pool that he had jumped from a ledge 15m above the water.
Another one of Blayd’s friends, Joshua Nies, said he will be making the angels laugh the way he made them laugh.
“Gonna (sic) miss him, the cards against humanity, his music, his spirit and just everything about him.”
The pools have significant indigenous history and are located on crown land.
According to the Wollondilly Shire Council, they are extremely dangerous and not suitable for recreational swimming.
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