Emergency services were called to Newcastle beach around 11pm last night to assist a young man who was pulled out of the ocean with suspected spinal injuries after diving head first into the ocean and hit his head on a sandbank.
The man was air lifed to the Royal Prince Alfred hospital for treatment.
Emergency services are asking people take care around water this summer and not to swim at night.
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