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Since 2008, more than 20 people have died along this 3km stretch between the Central Coast and Newcastle

This stretch of coastline has a dangerous past. Dozens of people have died here. (ABC Central Coast: Keira Proust)

On Father's Day in 2008, the inconceivable happened for Ruth and Darryl Earnshaw.

The couple received a call to say their son had been washed off rocks at a beach north of Sydney and was feared drowned.

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