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A man was able to swim to the victim struggling in the water and hold him until other members of the community took a boat out to the location. He was later pronounced dead.
With the global pandemic bringing overseas travel to a grinding halt, the number of drownings in Australia have dramatically risen as inexperienced swimmers flock to unfamiliar beaches and waterways to get their holiday fix. December alone has seen 20 individuals drown, compared to 14 across the entire 2019 summer, according to statistics from the Royal Life Saving Society's Summer Drowning Toll. The figure includes six lives lost in Queensland, five in Victoria, four in Western Australia, one in the Northern Territory and two each in NSW and the ACT. Ninety per cent of the victims have been...