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  • 5/18/2025
It is believed one of the women were trying to save the other when they died after getting into trouble while fishing at Back Beach. The husband of Ada Hunt, who drowned, said he was not "used to the idea yet" of her death. The mayor of Streaky Bay says the community will rally to support those affected by the loss of the two women, including a local, who drowned this week.

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00:00A husband in mourning, the day after, the bodies of his wife Ada and her friend were
00:07recovered from a popular beach near Streaky Bay.
00:09Well I was home just enjoying life and then the policeman come around and he said she'd
00:24got drowned out the back beach there.
00:29Mr Hunt said his wife had gone fishing with her 67 year old friend from Adelaide.
00:33He expected they'd return late afternoon but they never came back.
00:37I still haven't sort of got used to the idea yet.
00:41Emergency services responded to a call for help in the morning.
00:44The bodies were recovered in the afternoon.
00:47The tight knit Streaky Bay community struggling to come to terms with how the women died.
00:52Still very raw, still a lot that people don't understand or have got their head around yet.
00:57People familiar with the popular fishing and surfing beach say calm conditions on the ocean
01:01can give a false sense of security.
01:04With the high tide and the surging swell there's a big release of water which creates a rip and
01:09that rip is very hard to navigate to make your way back to shore once you're caught in it.
01:15At the moment the main thing is just making sure the family and friends are okay.
01:18Michael Hunt was taken to the hospital by police and is yet to see his wife's body.
01:23But community support has been overwhelming.
01:25It's just been one person after another since then.
01:29The council says it will offer help to family and any members of the small west coast community
01:34in need of support.

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