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.
#breaking Helicopter touches down at #CrescentHead more to come pic.twitter.com/iZR8LCgQN6
— Lachie Leeming (@LeemingLachie) January 4, 2017
Sophie Shepherd of Sydney recalls moment freak wave slammed 14 of her friends/family at #CrescentHead @macleayargus @smh @Proudman74 pic.twitter.com/dfQZg2jNKb
— Lachie Leeming (@LeemingLachie) January 4, 2017
“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.”