A Melbourne high school teacher who died saving a teenager and her father from drowning is being remembered as a hero by her distraught family.
Lisa Mandeltort drowned when a frantic mother ran up to her at Venus Bay last week when her daughter and partner were caught in a rip.
When Ms Mandeltort was approached by the distressed mother, she immediately volunteered to help. Look at me I m in a swimsuit was the science teacher s reaction her partner Bill told 9news.
Lisa Mandeltort did not think twice before going into the water to rescue the teenage girl and her father.(Nine)
The partner of a Melbourne science teacher who drowned at a Gippsland beach says she should be remembered for her rich and complex life and not just her last heroic act.
The Sydney family of a Melbourne mother-of-four who drowned after she was swept off the rocks have fought tooth-and-nail to enter Victoria for her funeral amid Covid-19 travel restrictions. Aida Hamed was among four family members who were wiped off rocks at Bushrangers Bay near Cape Schanck on Victoria s Mornington Peninsula at 3.30pm on Wednesday.
Two men nearby jumped into the water to assist but Ms Hamed, a 45-year-old Australia Post worker from Lalor in Melbourne s north, could not be saved.
Ms Hamed s son Daniel Hamed and his partner Alisar Najem, both 25, were worried they were about to be dealt another cruel blow in the wake of her death.
A single mother-of-four who drowned after she was swept off the rocks called her brother s wife to say the beach was most amazing beautiful place she had seen before her tragic death. Aida Hamed was among four family members who were wiped off rocks at Bushrangers Bay near Cape Schanck on Victoria s Mornington Peninsula at 3.30pm on Wednesday.
Two men nearby jumped into the water to assist but Ms Hamed, a 45-year-old Australia Post worker from Lalor in Melbourne s north, could not be saved.
Ms Hamed s brother Nizar Ibrahim said his sister loved the outdoors and the beach.
Mother Aida Hamed, 45, (pictured) drowned after being wiped off rocks at Bushrangers Bay near Cape Schanck on Victoria s Mornington Peninsula at 3:30pm on Wednesday
Post office worker Aida Hamed has been identified as the Bushrangers Bay drowning victim, after three people died in separate water tragedies on Wednesday.