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The police dive squad prepares to search for the body of Australian Jonathan Jordan Young who drowned after attempting to help a small boy caught in the water at Glenorchy.
Police have named the second man who drowned at Glenorchy, near Queenstown.
Jonathan Jordan Young, 35, from New South Wales, in Australia, died at the swimming spot on January 19.
He was assisting a child when he got into trouble, police said.
The drowning was the second at the same spot in Lake Wakatipu in less than a week after Wānaka man Linkin Kisling died on January 13 saving his 10-year-old son.
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Queenstown Lakes District Councillor Niki Gladding said angry and upset locals were continuing to patrol the popular swimming beach to warn people of hidden hazards at the site.
“It’s a bit windy at the moment, which equals cold so that will keep people out.”
New signage was installed at the site on Friday, but more effective signage was being organised by the Glenorchy Community Association, she said.
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Queenstown Lakes District councillor and Glenorchy resident Niki Gladding patrols the spot where two swimmers have drowned within a week at Glenorchy, Lake Wakatipu.
“We’ve noticed that people come down here they’re not understanding the level of danger and risk.
“The undertow is at a point that’s completely calm. It looks so benign.”
The patrol would continue until new signage was in place.
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New hazard signs were ordered by the Queenstown Lakes District Council following the death of Linkin Kisling in Lake Wakatipu, Glenorchy. Tragically they were completed and installed on Friday, a day after another swimmer drowned at the same spot.
“The general idea is to keep everyone out of the water at the moment.
“We just can’t take another death.”
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