A fisherman has escaped death after being swept off rocks in Sydney’s southeast.
The angler was one of three fishers who were casting from a rock pool at the north end of Maroubra beach on Saturday afternoon.
A set of waves about 1.5-metres high washed the man, whose age was not immediately clear, into the sea.
His lifejacket kept him afloat long enough for local lifeguards to race to the scene on a jet-ski and haul him out of the water.
A Randwick City Council spokesman said the lifejacket almost certainly kept the man alive.
“He spewed up a bit of water and he seemed to be doing all right,” he added.
“Obviously they called an ambulance for him and took him off to hospital.”
The spokesman said quite a few fishermen have been swept into the sea from the same spot – but many were not wearing lifejackets.
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