Man Drowns At Bondi Beach

on january 20 a mongolian doctor by the name of yondon dungu tragically drowned here at bondi beach with the support of this family we'll use this show to outline our message of surf safety the risks the dangers and the consequences of going to the beach it's 4 30 p.m on a busy summer saturday a strong rip is running in the south corner ready thinks he spotted a man in trouble and radios the tower essential to jet ski come in yeah we need you back here at bondi in the southern corner straight away please tom saw the man before he called the jet ski but when he looks back he's gone no this is not cool when ready reaches the spot that he last saw the man there's no sign [Applause] [Music] there there was a guy floundering um his head was just above water but it was continually going under i put the bionx down to call the jet ski and put him back on and now i can't see him anywhere radio is paddling out he's about 50 meters away from him and he got out there couldn't see him i might even send blake up to the top of the iceberg reedy finally locates a swimmer in the rip but he's not sure it's the man he saw earlier mate i think so i cannot see him anywhere he was scrapping two rescue boards in a jet ski have been dispatched while blake scans the water from above but there's still no sign of the man all i can see is waves and now blake's looking in just be searching i can't see any person in distress i can't see any boat riders who seem to be too concerned so maybe he's made it back to shore right is there anyone there on the shoreline that possibly could have been swimming with him or is a friend of him that may confirm if he's back to do you have a shore out there swimming at all well that's why i'm not sure there's no one running around the stress there's no board riders worried corey follows procedure but is uncertain anyone is missing while tom and reedy both saw the man struggling they can't be sure he's gone under yeah when reedy gets back to shore um he was the one that was going in for the rescue that spotted the guy so maybe just double check with him three minutes have passed since the man was last seen if he is underwater the chances of a successful resuscitation are rapidly diminishing who knows rudy do you know how far did you see where he was yeah i was just watching this asian guy and then suddenly he was going and i couldn't see him over the back of the waves and then i looked over and i just seen a couple of arms go up and i'm gonna have to go and i'd radio for the jet ski and i realized he wasn't gonna hear me because he was gonna tama so i went out and then i got out there and it was like an indian guy and it didn't look like the same guy that was going and i was like okay you're right he goes yeah and so i said oh can you go in for me and then i don't know surfers and swimmers are everywhere but there are no witnesses no friends or family come forward lifeguards have never lost a swimmer right in front of them like this before he couldn't have gone that quick it just couldn't have the search continues for 45 minutes even though lifeguards remain unsure someone is actually missing there is a four or five surfers around him which happened that quick hopefully one of the surfers just grabbed him or he found his feet [Music] it doesn't look like it's that dangerous to rip down there but there's not that much water moving it's pretty shallow like you should be able to stand every lifeguard is involved in the search but there are still 25 000 people to safeguard on the beach false alarms are common and with no new leads the search has scaled back no one up there saw anything so yeah who knows from what you say like robert i think he was there's a massive rock so wow it's just a dark fashion in the world i hope i'm wrong as pack up begins a 16 year old boy comes to the tower he is looking for his father about where they are you're still pretty close to the rocks just stay there for a second [Music] if this is the missing man lifeguards realize there's slim hope of finding him alive hey corey we're going to call the helicopter he lost his dad he was about to turn a minute off the rocks uh south about one or two hours ago yes this is um corey adams at waverley council lifeguards we thought someone might have gone under the waves we weren't absolutely sure so a bloke's just come up now and said he's lost his father and he fits the description and he might be able to get the police helicopter on the westpac or the westbound helicopter down here to do an aerial search we've got the jet ski in the water your family's down here yeah when your dad went in the water did someone go in with him no no he went by himself yeah all right the missing man is a doctor from mongolia he migrated to australia with his wife and three children just one week ago missing person is about 40 years of age he's from mongolia his name is dungu he um arrived at the beach two to three hours ago went for a swim and hasn't been seen from his family since all right so when was the last time you saw your house all available lifeguards resume the search while 18 year old blake stays with the family i'd rather she was up at central rather than be down here if something was to happen to her she slipped in the shop or whatever what do you think the thing is if she comes up here she's going to be hearing every radio message and phone call that goes on over yeah copy that mate um i'll just monitor down here the best i can okay someone's just got to try the car that's [Music] lifeguards search above and below the water but as the light fades really finds it hard-going okay i've got the um police and they're going to try and get the west back helicopter out or the police helicopter and i'll pay to fight bruce yeah cory on the jet ski it's now 7 20 pm almost three hours since the man first went missing as word spreads off duty lifeguards volunteered to join in the search i've got two blokes ben sutherland and ben quigley are in wetsuits they're ready to resume the search they're coming down to meet you now over it's a pretty bad rip down here at south deep channel and yeah not really strong swimmers down here today so i'm not sure i don't want to say what i think's happened but um yeah all i can say is just hope for the best hopefully he shows up around like he might have just wandered off but we're just waiting to see the police helicopters here in westpac was just here we've got the guys out there in the jet ski so just give it an extensive search and hopefully it all turns out for the best you know hopefully it all goes good jet ski to central suddenly the westpac rescue chopper identifies a shadow in the water that's uh we're presently hiring over a four to five foot shark probably copy that [Applause] in the confusion and noise lifeguards mistake the shark for the man's body and dive in to retrieve it the shark is scared away is we've got a guy out there on the surfboard waving his hands i think he's gone [Music] it's gonna be horrible until paramedics arrive lifeguards must work on the man no matter what the chances of resuscitation 19 20. i mean they're obviously doing everything they can the boys they'd have the d5 and the oxy and everything on him but you know he's just been under too long [Applause] let's get him on you 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 80. put them down do not touch all right corey notifies chief lifeguard bruce hopkins yeah bruce cory made it um the lifeguards tower we found him and the boys are working on him seriously i think it's a futile attempt but then it's here just picking him up let's see mate the there bring everything back up here to central and they'd all get dry get dressed and we'll have a little talk over [Music] i don't know how there of you have been involved in something like this before but you know in 20 years they've been here there's been probably a few of these that um have happened to us and i'm sure probably won't be the last one unfortunately but these things happen so yeah they do happen fellas yeah because sometimes they just go under and you can't do anything about it yeah i saw a guy standing on the sandbag yeah we've got a call from rudy that he's going out standard rescue he was the only one down there so i told backpackers just to stand by just in case somebody needed assistance put the goggles back on him i couldn't see anything all i could see was like maybe a forehead or something i saw something and that was it one of those ones that you don't even know where you're gonna go because i keep slipping off the bank because i was low the waves i couldn't see out of the way to see whether i needed to go or not from what it sounds like sandy was standing lost his footing and then just sunk over the last four or five years our lifeguards have had a pretty clean slate statistically you know we haven't lost anyone but because of the dangerous conditions down here and the tragic event that occurred it's definitely you know sent a shock wave through the team feel really sick in the stomach because it was my area of the water and i just felt like i'd made a mistake i'd done something wrong like i was like watching him and then you know and he's watching other things and then i went back and and like the waves were breaking and i went and i radiated i just couldn't figure out how someone could go under so quick people scream and people splash and people make a lot of noise and he pretty much took him out for the water and went under and i just i couldn't i thought maybe i missed him and maybe he made all that noise and i didn't see it by all means if you're feeling bad about it tomorrow it's not a sign of weakness to ask to talk to someone about it these services available free of charge anonymously through the council so don't carry around with you what are you doing [Music] how do you have this kid come up to you and you know that his father is dead the hardest part was walking along the beach and kind of asking him the questions like can your dad swim does he have anywhere else to go and you saw it clicking in his head and and then his mum's head that like there isn't much hope like he was in the water he didn't have anywhere else to go he couldn't swim and and i think that was the toughest part for me was was watching them realize that their husband like their father is is gone and no one ever wants to finish a day at work knowing that someone died while they're on

Channel: BondiRescue

Views: 1,619,646

Rating: 4.9520974 out of 5

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Id: lan9K6Gcwvw

Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 17 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/iBelieveInSpace]

Died on his birthday. Not that it makes it any more tragic but his wife saying that hit me.

[u/calcium]

That video really hit home, but when they were talking to the family they revealed that he didn't know how to swim. Pretty sad all around considering their family had just immigrated to Australia a week earlier with his wife and 3 kids and died within a week of arriving.

[u/Zinski]

Tides are scary man.

A few beaches in Rhoads Island have these super strong tides that will slowly pull you away from the beach for like 60 seconds, they you realize you can barley touch, and your sliding across the sand before a wave picks you up and you can lo longer touch, then you look back and realize, oh, Im 100 yards from the shore and only getting further.... hmmm.

If you cant swim its just death. Even if you can poeple try and swim in, get tired and then drown.

[u/BigBiker05]

18 year old having to have a calm conversation with a 16 year old, all while knowing quite likely his father is dead.

[u/International_XT]

Very sad. I wonder how it would have impacted the man's chances if they'd sent up one of those widely available quadcopter drones like the Phantom right away to give them an eagle's eye view of the water. Some of those things have really good cameras, and who knows what difference a trained operator might have made.

[u/filmbuffering]

That show is so weird to me, because there’s 20,000 more isolated beaches in Oz, many of them more treacherous than Bondi (rips, rocks, etc). And this is perhaps the most patrolled one in the country.

I guess it’s a numbers game - just more people swim there.

[u/shatteredson]

If you don't know how to swim stay out of the water, especially if it's deep enough that it's up to your stomach.

If you want to get in the water learn how to swim first, otherwise there's a great chance of a needless death.

[u/TheFuturist25]

I remember once we'd gone to the beach..we were high up on the rocks with a good vantage of the beach far from the water..it was a usual Sunday crowd...couple of middle aged men in the water near a rock formation , families out for a walk..we were up to our own business drinking beers and talking when suddenly we heard shouting from the group in the water..people rushed over..half of them in panic and the other in disbelief as to what was happening...we all sobered up pretty fast as the mood grew tense.. people brought up a raft a a search party was started for the man who apparently had got caught up in an undercurrent under the rocks and swept away..they couldn't find him..we left after it got dark and I still don't know what happened..but that stuck with me for a while as to how quickly things can go wrong

[u/High_and_Lonesome]

Wow. Super interesting.

I live near a beach with very strong currents. That shit is terrifying to me.