{"id":481986,"date":"2025-12-31T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481986\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:33:12","slug":"man-drowns-and-boy-missing-after-boat-capsizes-at-palm-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/481986\/","title":{"rendered":"Man drowns and boy missing after boat capsizes at Palm Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police have confirmed a man has drowned and a 14-year-old boy is missing after a boat capsized at Palm Beach on Sydney&#8217;s northern beaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A third person, a man, was winched to safety by helicopter and has been taken to Royal North Shore Hospital in a stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services were called to Palm Beach just before midday on Wednesday following reports of a boat capsizing near Barrenjoey Head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man was pulled from the water by Surf Life Saving members and treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics; however, he died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A boat dingy capsized on rocks near ocean.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2ab03dfb952cc9c311b56018154a1ade.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Emergency services were contacted following reports a boat had capsized. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p>Search effort underway<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police, surf life savers and the Westpac Rescue helicopter are continuing to search the area to locate a 14-year-old boy who was a passenger on the boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Surf Life Saving have a number of assets out on the water, including jetskis,&#8221; Rod McGibbon, president of the NSW Surf Life Saving Northern Beaches, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Conditions are not great, there&#8217;s quite a large swell coming in and a bit of wind as well \u2026 which would have undoubtedly contributed to the incident with the boat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A police boat in the water.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/690fe0693d27129f40563ce986efa371.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Emergency services were called to Palm Beach on Wednesday morning. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Amid the poor weather conditions, visibility in the water has been limited for the search crews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr McGibbon said experienced operators would continue throughout the day in the search effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Acting Inspector Nicole Turner from the Northern Beaches Police Area Command described the incident as &#8220;tragic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The search will continue this evening,&#8221; she confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An aerial of the helicopter, yellow and red, over ocean.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1f1d9bce6f5d16115d404376cbae588e.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Police, surf life savers and the Westpac Rescue helicopter are involved in the search. (ABC News)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Mr McGibbon added: &#8220;We wouldn&#8217;t want to see this happen on any day, but particularly in that New Year and Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;People are enjoying time with their family through the New Year and Christmas period and you don&#8217;t want to see something like this happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Amid a busy season for NSW Surf Life Saving across the state, officials are urging the community to check conditions before heading out on a boat and to wear life jackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have confirmed a man has drowned and a 14-year-old boy is missing after a boat capsized at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,218222,101102,218224,60541,62976,218223,218225,50,218221,218220],"class_list":{"0":"post-481986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-boat-capsized","10":"tag-boat-capsizes","11":"tag-boy-missing","12":"tag-drowning","13":"tag-man-dead","14":"tag-man-drowns","15":"tag-new-years-eve-tragedy","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-palm-beach-drowning","18":"tag-palm-beach-sydney"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115813259948288357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}