Drownings

An inquest into the drowning of serviceman Gary Dale Sargeant will investigate the way his mental health was handled by the RAAF, which initially refused to provide police with an image of him after he went missing.

A coroner says wearing a life jacket may have increased 16-year-old Jack Bird's chances of survival when he was thrown from his boat into rough water on a lake near the Victorian-NSW border.

The family of 11-year-old Laith Alaid have thanked volunteers and community members who "selflessly dedicated their time and resources" to search for the boy who was swept out to sea.

The boy was trying to cross a channel of water on the NSW Central Coast with his father and brothers when the current swept him away.

Lifesavers and multicultural service workers join forces to hold rock fishing safety sessions after two young men from Nepal were swept off rocks and drowned at a Sydney beach earlier this year. 

Greg Kleinig will never forget the day he saved a man who had spent 20 hours in a raging sea. But he fears many tourists still don't appreciate the unique danger of his region's coastline. 

Lifeguards say the 67-year-old man and his wife were swept out to sea while swimming at an unpatrolled beach south of the Sunshine Coast.

Chadwer Leah, who drowned in Melbourne's Yarra River after he was allegedly chased by two teenagers, has been remembered as a talented footballer and role model with "genuine kindness".

Police have recovered the bodies of a woman and two children from the Georges River in Sydney's south-west, after the trio were seen in distress earlier in the day. 

A brave young woman prevented a tragic Victorian beach drowning from becoming a triple fatality. The coroner investigating the case has made a blunt warning ahead of summer.

Indonesian authorities confirm the 56-year-old's body was found by locals about one kilometre from where he was last seen.

Craig Laidley has not been seen since he was swept out to sea after saving a struggling swimmer at a Bali beach.

A woman has drowned near Cape Schanck on Victoria's southern coast, with two others in her group making it back safely after being swept off rocks.

For the better part of 70 years, Claude Jeanneret has been keeping Surfers Paradise beach safe. As another patrol season starts, Surf Life Saving Australia has released its latest "alarming" drowning statistics. 

Royal Life Saving's latest national drowning report shows one in four people who drown are born overseas. A migrant water safety program helped Omnia beat her fear and avoid being a victim.

In 2020, three childcare workers took six children on their weekly excursion to the pool – but only five made it home. A five-day inquest has probed how one toddler was left behind at a public swimming pool.

More than half of Australia's hotel pool drownings in the past decade happened in the Sunshine State where life rings, rescue tubes and defibrillators are not mandatory.

Central Coast surfer Josh Roden had no idea who he was rescuing when he pulled former Liberal Party deputy leader Bruce Baird from the water last weekend — simple instinct kicked in.

Three women have been swept off the rocks at Kurnell in the Sutherland Shire, sparking a major emergency response. One woman managed to make it back to shore but the other two were pronounced dead after being pulled unconscious from the ocean.

The father of four-year-old Ali Aminzadah tells the ABC he is devastated after his son drowned in a wetland area at Officer, in Melbourne's outer south-east.