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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Catie McLeod

Paddle boarders rescued after being swept more than 10km across Port Phillip Bay in three-hour ordeal

A lone fisherman fishes off a jetty in Melbourne's Port Phillip Bay
Two paddle boarders swept across Port Phillip Bay were among six people rescued in three separate potential drowning incidents in Victoria on the same day, police said. Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

Two paddle boarders who were rescued after being swept more than 10km across Victoria’s Port Phillip Bay on Christmas Day say they are exhausted and shaken but grateful to have survived.

Victoria police said the pair set out from Portarlington on the Bellarine peninsula about 3pm on Thursday but drifted out into the bay when conditions deteriorated and were swept all the way to Wyndham harbour in Melbourne’s outer west.

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