Dangerous Swell Before Fatal Boat Capsized

The Tweed Heads Bar on the Queensland–New South Wales Border, Australia, on May 17, 2017. AAP Image/Dave Hunt

Dangerous swell is being probed as the cause of a boat capsizing where one man died and another was injured in northern New South Wales (NSW).

Two people were seen clinging to the upturned hull of a 6.5-metre boat at the north wall of the Tweed River Bar at about 6 a.m. on July 13.