Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from a beach in Newcastle area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District have been told a 20-year-old man was with friends when he entered surf at Stockton Beach about 2.45pm on Sunday (26 November 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When he was unable to be located, multiple agencies including Port Stephens-Hunter Police District, Marine Area Command, NSW Ambulance, and NSW Surf Life Savers were notified and a search was initiated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The search has continued involving local police, Westpac helicopter, local surf live savers, water police, NSW Ambulance paramedics, and Polair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s believed he is from the Granville area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s search will involve regular patrols of the shoreline by local police and a sea search by Newcastle Water Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are appealing for public assistance to locate a man missing from a beach in Newcastle area. Officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District have been told a 20-year-old man was with friends when he entered surf at Stockton Beach about 2.45pm on Sunday (26 November 2023). When he was unable to be located, multiple agencies … Continue reading “Search continues for missing swimmer – Stockton Beach”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24294,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24293\/revisions\/24294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}