Man Overboard Incidents - Another fatal weekend

7:58 AM Mon 27 Jun 2011 GMT

Volunteers at Marine Rescue Terrey Hills were involved in a second weekend involving fatalities in the Sydney Metropolitan Area. On Saturday night Marine Rescue radio operators at Port Kembla received reports of a man overboard from a five metre runabout in Botany Bay following a collision with a buoy. They passed the information to Marine Rescue Sydney and a distress call was relayed to vessels in the area. Water Police vessels from Botany Bay were alerted and conducted a search through the night. A body, believed to be that of the missing man was located by police divers the following ...

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by Simon Denneen