By Sarah Hawke
A man has died while swimming on the Central Coast today making him the sixth man, and seventh person, to drown in New South Wales over the Christmas period.
The man was found unresponsive in the swimming baths on Ocean Parade at The Entrance, just after 3:00pm.
He died at the scene and was yet to be formally identified.
Earlier today, a 25-year-old man’s body was found earlier in the Nepean River, within the Bents Basin Conservation Area south of Sydney.
He had been swimming with friends on Boxing Day but disappeared about 3.30pm, not long after entering the water.
There did not appear to be any suspicious circumstances surrounding the man’s death, police said.
The tragedy was the latest in a string of water-related deaths in NSW over the festive period.
Earlier on Boxing Day, a 60-year-old Grafton man drowned after trying to help his four nieces at Wooli Beach north of Coffs Harbour.
The girls, aged between 10 and 16, were caught in a rip.
Later that day, police divers found the body of a 27-year-old man who disappeared while swimming in the Kangaroo River in the Shoalhaven region.
Also in Shoalhaven, a 56-year-old Kensington man was found unconscious in the surf at Merry Beach at Kiola about 6.30pm. He could not be revived.