Overview
- The 18-year-old fell about 40 metres at Half Moon Bay around 8:30pm Sunday and was taken to hospital in a stable condition with spinal, arm and leg injuries.
- Fire Rescue Victoria’s high-angle team, with SES crews and paramedics, rigged ropes on unstable sandstone to reach a ledge about five metres up, then lowered him to the beach and walked him out in a roughly 30-minute night rescue.
- Earlier on Sunday, a man in his 20s was winched from The Pillars at Mount Martha and was airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with serious injuries.
- On Friday, a woman in her 30s was rescued after a Beaumaris cliff fall and remains in a critical condition at The Alfred.
- Citing the three incidents in days, Life Saving Victoria’s Dr Bernadette Matthews cautioned against following social-media trends to secluded sites and urged people to swim where lifesavers patrol.