NSW drownings prompt calls to extend lifeguard services on national park beaches

Three people drowned on unpatrolled beaches in the Central Coast on Wednesday. (ABC Central Coast: Keira Proust)

New South Wales Surf Life Saving is calling for beach patrols to be expanded in national parks across the state following the death of a husband and wife on a Central Coast beach.

The local couple, believed to be from nearby Munmorah, died on Wednesday afternoon.