Two men, one aged 20 and the other in his 40s, have drowned after getting into trouble while swimming at a beach at Victoria's Phillip Island.
Multiple distress calls were made to emergency services at around 5.30pm on Monday.
A young boy was able to swim to the shore at Colonnade beach, Newhaven, but a 20-year-old man and another in his 40s both died at the scene after being pulled from the water.