One Injured After Freak Wave Sweeps 14 People Off Rocks At NSW Beach

Because 2017 is already the year that we should stay the hell away from the beach (but obvs won’t the beach is amazing screw YOU nature), fourteen people have been swept off the rocks at Crescent Head, located on the NSW Mid North Coast, courtesy of a mammoth gd wave.

Rescue operations arrived at 2pm AEDT to begin airlifting members of the group, and while luckily no one was seriously injured one unnamed man has been hospitalised with a suspected broken collarbone after falling to the bottom of the cliff. 

According to witnesses, the group was swimming in the Goolawah Beach rock pool when the wave knocked them against the rocks. 
The rest of the group included one more adult and twelve children, who reportedly only suffered minor cuts and abrasions.

Following an unprecedented number of drowning deaths in NSW since mid-December, Chief Inspector Steven Johnson from Shoalhaven police has stressed the usual safety precautions:

“If you are out on the beach, make sure that you are between the flags and don’t swim in dangerous conditions.”

“If you are on a boat … under 4.2 metres, make sure you are wearing a lifejacket, or any other time in which the law prescribes,”

“We don’t want to be in the situation again where we have to go around and tell a member of a family that, tragically, a loved one has lost their life while being on the water.”
It’s a wild world out there folks, stay safe.
Source: Fairfax.
Photo: Twitter.

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