A man has died after being pulled from the water unconscious following a boat capsize on the New South Wales North Coast.
Two people were seen clinging to the upturned hull of a 6.5m half-cabin runabout boat on Saturday morning.
Emergency services were called to the North Wall of the Tweed River about 6am.
Tweed/Byron police officers, Tweed Heads Water Police, Marine Rescue, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter crew and Surf Life Savers were called into action in the rescue operation.
Marine Rescue members managed to pull one man to safety from the water.
He was taken to Tweed Heads Hospital as a precautionary measure.
A second man was pulled from the water by the helicopter crew and taken to Duranbah Beach however he was sadly unabe to be revived.
“Police have been told the men launched the boat from the Kennedy Drive boat ramp a short time earlier and were heading out across the bar when the boat capsized,” NSW Police said in a statement.
Neither men were believed to have been wearing a life jacket, according to initial inquiries.
A report is being prepared for the information of the Coroner.