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Heroic surfing priest rescues father and son from rip at Cable Beach
A Catholic priest has rescued a father and son who were struggling to swim at a tourist hotspot in Western Australia's far north. Last weekend, Father Ryan was out in the water at Cable Beach when he spotted two people struggling to stay afloat. "I saw a couple of fellows who looked like they were getting pretty close to where a little flash rip was," he said. Father Ryan paddled over when he yelled out and heard no response. He said within seconds, one of the "young fellas clambered onto his board" relieved at the sight of help. "Being in a tourist town, we do get a few people who are not familiar with being around open water," he said. "[It] can look really calm, but if there's a big tide … one minute you're in the flags, next minute you're on your own." While Father Liam Ryan spends much of his time at the Broome Catholic Church, he is equally known in the community for surfing and swimming in the open waters. The rescue was not his first foray into saving desperate swimmers. He received an Australian Bravery Award in 2022 for saving someone who was bitten by a great white shark in Bunker Bay in the state's south-west two years prior. Father Ryan described the situation as similar to his Cable Beach rescue but "a little bit scarier". "We ended up getting a little bit of a pat on the back. We got the gong from the [government]," he said. Ultimately, Father Ryan said there was "something deep within you" that wanted to help others in need, and he credited years of swimming, which gave him the ability to assist in water emergencies. Last weekend's rescue at Cable Beach was not an isolated incident. There has been a spike in swimmers being caught in rips and getting into trouble outside the designated flagged area since the start of the tourist season. There were four rescues in five days at Cable Beach, according to West Coast Water Rescue, contracted to patrol the tourist destination by the local council. Fatal drowning incidents at Cable Beach in Broome are rare, with a notable case occurring in 2020. More broadly, the Kimberley region recorded the third-highest regional drowning rate in Australia, at 4.55 per 100,000 residents, according to the latest data from the Royal Life Saving Society. Broome Surf Life Saving Club director Fabio Armanni said it was important people paid attention to the conditions. The Broome Surf Life Saving Club volunteers patrol the beach on Sunday, while West Coast Water Rescue patrols throughout the rest of the week. Mr Armanni said "preventative actions" were far more common than rescues, typically involving alerts when watercraft came too close to the flags or when someone was caught in a rip. Swimmers are advised to swim between the flags, check the conditions, swim with a buddy, avoid alcohol and drugs and be wary of rips. As Father Ryan puts it, "respect the ocean" and "don't be a dag, swim between the flags".
ABC News
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Search continues for entangled whale off NSW coast
A search has resumed this morning for a "distressed" whale which is entangled in rope and trailing a buoy. Rescue teams were unsuccessful in setting it free after it was sighted just south of Sydney Harbour yesterday.
News.com.au
4 hours ago
- News.com.au
How meeting your next door neighbours can lead to a second family
While some Aussies are becoming more split from their neighbours than ever, Pete Chapman couldn't believe the bond his family made with the people next door. 'We lived in our previous house for almost 9 years, and we never got to that kind of closeness with any of our neighbours at all,' he said. 'Within the first month of us moving here, we made friends with the neighbours … it's almost like an extended family, and we've barely known them for 12 months.' Mr Chapman, his wife Kiera and their three kids, moved to their new home in Forest Lake at a time when nearly three quarters of Queenslanders said they felt Aussies were less interested in knowing their neighbours than they were 20 years ago. New research from Real Insurance and MyMavins also showed a staggering 65 per cent of people said they had never met a neighbour despite living right next to them for more than six months. But it was no time at all before Mr Chapman's children were spending time with the kids next door. 'Our kids could see one of our neighbours standing at their door or the front yard, just watching our kids running around,' he said. 'So we just got them to go talk to them, and they've been best friends ever since.' Looking after them was neighbour Diane Greig, taking care of her two grandkids while their mother was out at work. 'She's really open and helps us out when Kiera and I are stuck,' he said. 'Every afternoon after school, [our kids] are hanging out – whether some of my kids go next door into Diane's place, or whether hers come into our place. It's kind of like our family's grown by three or four people.' Mr Chapman said he felt a big reason behind Australia's weaker neighbourly bonds was because people were much busier than they used to be. 'A lot of people are more time-poor than we were 20 years ago,' he said. 'With the cost of living nowadays, it's almost like both partners need to be working full time, which means you're not at home much. If you've got kids, you're sorting dinner and all that, so there's no time to get to know your neighbours.' But the Chapmans said they felt it was well worth it to take the extra step and reach out to the people around them. 'It helped us settle in to the new place really well, by having neighbours we could talk to,' Mr Chapman said. 'A lot of the neighbours around here have been in their houses for many years, so just having them [around] made us feel safer.' 'There's probably a lot of people with anxiety and other factors that hinder them being confident enough to reach out … but have a chat! You never know. You might have a chat to your neighbours and find out you have something in common that you didn't know about, and that could be a starting point to building a friendship.'
