A 14-year-old plunged into 3m waves at Chrystalls Beach to pluck his 11-year-old brother from the water. Video / Stephen JaquieryA 14-year-old plunged into 3m waves at Chrystalls Beach to pluck his 11-year-old brother from the water. Dramatic details have emerged of an older brother's courageous rescue of a boy on the coast near Milton, south of Dunedin, at the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, humble hero Kalya Kandegoda Gamage, 14, plunged into 3m waves at remote Chrystalls Beach to pluck his 11-year-old brother Kithmi from the frigid Pacific Ocean. Kandegoda Gamage has worked on the Chrystalls Beach dairy farm of Tony and Sue MacDonnell for the past year.

Source: New Zealand Herald September 01, 2022 03:24 UTC