Body of man, 28, is pulled from the ocean hours after a five-year-old boy was found dead in a capsized boat
- Family boat capsized off the NSW coast near Wollongong on Saturday at 6.20pm
- Body of unidentified man was found near the same area on Sunday afternoon
- Body of a boy, five, was found by police divers on Sunday morning
- Two men, 23 and 31, were rescued on Saturday
The body of a 28-year-old man has been found in the water almost 20 hours after a boat capsized off Wollongong killing a five-year-old boy.
The boat carrying four people capsized near Bulli Point on Saturday evening.
Two men, aged 23 and 31, were pulled from the water 100 minutes later by a rescue helicopter crew.
They were taken to Wollongong Hospital in a stable condition and have since been released.
The body of a man has been found in the ocean near where a boat with four people capsized near Bulli Point on Saturday night (search crews pictured)
The body was found after a five-year-old boy drowned when a boat (pictured) with four people on-board capsized near Bulli Point on Saturday night
The capsized boat was towed into Port Kembla harbour on Sunday morning when police divers found the body of the five-year-old boy.
The search for the 28-year-old man ended in tragedy on Sunday afternoon.
‘The search has now been concluded,’ a NSW Police spokesperson said in a statement.
NSW Ambulance Inspector Norm Rees earlier described the incident as a long weekend disaster.
‘It’s absolutely heartbreaking for everyone involved,’ he said in a statement.
‘All the emergency services are impacted by the tragedy but our hearts go out to the family.’
Emergency crews reported seeing the young boy on the hull of the capsized vessel on Saturday night.
‘The callers were reporting that multiple screams appeared to be coming off Bulli Headland from the rocks,’ a police spokesman told The Daily Telegraph.
‘They heard the screaming for quite some time and then it went quiet.’
The body is yet to be identified but is believed to be the missing 28-year-old father of three who was yet to be found by search crews (pictured), meanwhile two other men were found and rescued shortly after the boat capsized