Overview

• A 58-year-old fisherman drowned after being swept off a rock wall at Wollongong Harbour early Friday morning.
• At San Remo’s Punchbowl Rocks, two women and a man were swept into the water; one woman died, one reached shore, and the man remains missing.
• A swimmer drowned off Middle Head in Sydney’s Mosman area, with hazardous surf conditions cited as a contributing factor.
• Emergency services are conducting an ongoing search for a man seen struggling in the water at Little Bay Beach in Sydney on Friday afternoon.
• Authorities and meteorologists have issued urgent warnings to avoid unpatrolled beaches and heed hazardous surf advisories over the Easter long weekend.