00:00It's been a devastating weekend for families who've lost a loved one to drowning, the
00:06latest a nine-year-old boy.
00:09Emergency services were called to a beach on New South Wales mid-north coast at South
00:13West Rocks at around 3.30pm after reports a young child had been trapped between rocks
00:20and the shoreline.
00:22Now when New South Wales Police, New South Wales Fire and Rescue and Surf Life Saving
00:27New South Wales arrived and tried to free him from where he was trapped.
00:32They unfortunately couldn't save him and he died at the scene.
00:36Now New South Wales Police are investigating the circumstances around this incident to
00:41try and understand what happened and will be preparing a report for the coroner.
00:46Now this brings the death toll in New South Wales caused by drowning to six.
00:52A father had passed away yesterday morning at Guatemala Beach after being swept off the
00:58rocks.
01:00There was also another three deaths along the New South Wales South coast at Tarthra, Wollongong
01:06and Green Cape as well as a death in Sydney's North Shore suburb of Mossman.
01:13Now in addition to this, Surf Life Saving New South Wales say they've carried out 150 rescues
01:19across the weekend describing this as the worst Easter long weekend in history.
01:24Now police are continuing their search for a 24 year old man who was swept off the rocks
01:29here at Little Bay in Sydney's eastern suburbs.
01:33Now many of these deaths over the weekend caused by drownings were a result of being washed
01:38off of rock shelves and so authorities have really expressed their concern and warnings to
01:44the public around visiting the beach especially as the Bureau of Meteorology are predicting a
01:50warmer than usual winter and so the advice is to only visit patrolled beaches and to swim
01:56between the red and yellow flags.
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