Water safety
‘The most perfect son’: Family of lost teen share tribute
The family of 15-year-old Luca Bennett have paid tribute to the teen after he was swept off rocks at North Avoca Beach on Christmas Eve.
- by Jessica McSweeney and Riley Walter
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Friends gather to honour Luca Bennett, lost at North Avoca Beach
A sombre message has been etched onto a rock face near where Scots student Luca Bennett, was swept away on Christmas Eve.
- by Clare Sibthorpe, Billie Eder and Riley Walter
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Avoca Beach
Missing boy swept off rocks identified as search continues on Central Coast
A large-scale sea and air search has resumed after a 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf on Tuesday.
- by Billie Eder, Riley Walter and Nigel Gladstone
Search resumes for missing boy at North Avoca
Divers are in the water and lifesavers are on jetskis in the search for a 15-year-old who was swept off rocks on Tuesday afternoon.
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Emergency services
Search for boy missing off Central Coast beach to resume on Christmas Day
A large-scale sea and air search was launched after reports the 15-year-old was swept off a rock shelf at about 3pm on Tuesday.
- by Riley Walter
Teenage lifesavers’ desperate attempt to save drowning woman
A woman was pulled unconscious from a South Coast beach by 13-year-old members of Gerringong Surf Club.
- by Ben Cubby
Swimmer’s body found off northern beaches
The search for a missing person ended in tragedy on Sunday.
- by Angus Thomson
After three years and two long summers, Nielsen Park returns as a people’s playground
Nielsen Park and Shark Beach were saved from privatisation 120 years ago by a group fearing Sydney was becoming a “pond in a privately owned paddock”.
- by Julie Power
The vital lessons these survivors are getting in Sydney’s suburbs
Swim Brothers is providing free lessons to newly arrived young refugees from Gaza, and in a way that also recognises their recent trauma.
- by Julie Power
Man dies after two boats collide on Sydney Harbour
Emergency services were called to New Beach Road in Darling Point around 6.30pm after two boats were reported to have collided.
- by Sally Rawsthorne
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Surfing
‘I kooked it’: Surfing legend Tom Carroll shaken, and embarrassed, after head injury
Carroll made his name surfing monster waves off Hawaii, but it was a much smaller swell closer to home that upended the former world champion.
- by Catherine Naylor and Riley Walter
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