A man has been charged with operating a vessel under the influence of alcohol after falling overboard and being rescued by police in Brisbane Water on February 2.
At about 5pm on Wednesday, a man was operating an aluminium runabout in Brisbane Water off Koolewong, when he reportedly fell overboard while on a video call with family.
Emergency services were notified and officers from Brisbane Water Police Area Command responded.
With the assistance of a member of the public, police boarded his vessel and conducted a large water search with the assistance of the Marine Area Command and the 26-year-old man was located adrift in water off Point Clare.
He was rescued and subjected to a breath test, returning a positive result.
The Woy Woy man was arrested and taken to Woy Woy Police Station, where a breath analysis returned an alleged reading of 0.168.
He was issued a court attendance notice for operate vessel with high range PCA and is due to appear at Gosford Local Court on April 7.
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Social media, Feb 3
Brisbane Water Police District
What are Brisbane Water Police doing at Woy Woy, what a load of xxxx. Woy Woy is NSW not Brisbane. Another load of crap that sells papers. FFS stop this now. [edited]