The young fellow known as Norman Oneale was 16 years old and went camping for the weekend with a friend. However, they were not even at the Wemmerpan Dam for more than a day, when the incident occurred. The newspapers got it wrong, his name, and the fact that he was an excellent swimmer, so the drowning, in my opinion, was an accident that never was investigated thoroughly.
Although it was winter and I can imagine the water was freezing, I think he was pushed in and did not die from drowning but a heart attack. When pushed into the icy water, his body probably went into shock from the cold, and he was unable to get out and "his friend" did not even help.
I do know that there was no postmortem done to determine the actual cause of death, and so we lost another wonderful young person.
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