POLICE are investigating the apparent drowning of a German tourist on Cabbage Beach on Saturday afternoon.

Sometime around 2pm, police received information that a 73-year-old man from Schnee Berg, Germany, was swimming with friends at Cabbage Beach when he started to experience some difficulties, and had to be pulled from the sea by his friends.

EMS personnel responded and pronounced the victim dead.

Police are withholding the name of the victim who was visiting with a relative.

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