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Advertisement A body has been found in the search for a young woman who went missing while snorkelling at Altona beach on Saturday. The 20-year-old, from Ashwood in Melbourne’s east, was in the water with friends about 100 metres from shore when she disappeared from view while near the pier on Saturday about 11.15am. Divers enter the water on the third day of a search for a missing snorkeller. Credit:Jason South A search, involving specialist divers, water police and the air wing, was launched on Saturday and continued on Monday morning. A body was recovered from the water about 10.30am. ....
Advertisement Kane Treloar points out the brown sand churned up in the water washing out to sea at Thirteenth Beach, near Barwon Heads. It’s a telltale sign of a rip. Just last weekend a 56-year-old man drowned in big waves at this section of unpatrolled beach. A helicopter winched the man from the water but lifeguards could not revive him. Life Saving Victoria’s Kane Treloar at Thirteenth Beach where a man died earlier this month. Credit:Justin McManus “The water was turbulent that day. It was full of sand,” Mr Treloar says. “Then the next day another four people were pulled out here in exactly the same place.” ....
Advertisement Victorians have been warned to stay safe over the Australia Day long weekend as temperatures soar and the state marks its worst summer drowning toll on record. A man in his 40s is the latest to die in Victorian waters after he, a woman and a teenage boy were thrown out of their tinnie off Darriman, in Victoria s east, in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Terry Chandler drowned after his tinnie capsized at a beach in East Gippsland. Credit:Nine News The woman and teen were able to make it to shore, but 42-year-old Terry Chandler did not. He was found by the police air wing in waters off McLoughlins Beach, about 60 kilometres from Traralgon, but was unable to be revived. ....