Overview

• Witnesses saw a 57-year-old interstate tourist slip below the surface in the lower pool on Tuesday after swimming about 100 metres toward the falls and fail to resurface
• Specialist divers located the body at 21 metres depth near one of the waterfalls at about 9:44 am on Thursday
• The multi-agency recovery effort deployed Darwin police divers, sonar-equipped boats, underwater drones and aerial drones amid low visibility, submerged debris and depths up to 25 metres
• Northern Territory Police have ruled the death non-suspicious and suspect it resulted from a medical incident, with a coroner’s report to follow
• Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife have closed both pools and the walking tracks at Edith Falls pending safety inspections