Qintao WANG
Qintao WANG
Qintao Wang had gone rock fishing for the day on Saturday 15 May 2010 in North Bondi Sydney alone. This was a common activity for Qintao to do. He had dropped his wife off to work in the morning and then was due to return to pick her up at 4:00 pm. Qintao’s wife had tried o call him numerous times throughout the day without an answer. When it came time to pick up his wife, Qintao did not show up. Searches were conducted around the area that he was heading and they located his car parked without Qintao in sight. Family and friends have not heard from him since. There is great concern for his welfare.
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Police have scaled back the search for a rock fisherman missing in Sydney's east.
They fear it is the sixth rock fishing death in New South Wales this week.
This morning police rescue officers scaled the rocks at North Bondi where 29-year-old Qintao Wang was last seen.
Late last night after his family raised the alarm, police found his fishing equipment.
His car remains parked in a nearby street.
Inspector Eddie Bosch from the Eastern Suburbs Local Area Command says he was swept off the rocks soon after he arrived.
"There's quite a large amount of his bait left and his water bottle's full so possibly around 11am to 11:30 he may well have got washed off," he said.
Inspector Bosch is concerned that a state-wide warning did not get through to the victim.
"It's obviously a worry. Hopefully the message will get out to a few more people who hear this," he said.
"It can be a dangerous pastime. Obviously some people should be better off avoiding it.
"A lot of people have a good time doing it but every now and then we get one of these tragedies which you think could be avoided quite easily."
The ground search has now been called off but Polair and the Water Police will conduct another swoop of the area this afternoon.
His friends and family, including his 28-year-old wife who is pregnant with their first child, remain at the scene.
It is just a week since five people were swept to their deaths while rock fishing on the central coast.
QINTAO Wang will never see his unborn child. In just seconds, Mr Wang was washed away by a powerful 2m wave as he fished off rocks in Sydney's exclusive east.
QINTAO Wang will never see his unborn child.
In just seconds, Mr Wang was washed away by a powerful 2m wave as he fished off rocks near North Bondi on Saturday.
The 29-year-old, who is presumed dead, broke the cardinal rule of rock fishing: never fish by yourself.
The Chinese-born accountant, who graduated from the Central Queensland University last year, is feared to be the 16th fisherman to die off the Australia coast this year.
His presumed death comes less than a week after five Sydney anglers, originally from Hong Kong, were washed to their deaths at Catherine Hill Bay, south of Newcastle.
The 2010 death toll is already four more than last year's total, with more than 90 per cent of those killed originally from Asian countries.
Mr Wang, also known as Don, leaves behind his pregnant wife Emily Wang. Two months pregnant, Ms Wang was yesterday at the area where her husband disappeared - known locally as the Bondi Murk - as the search went on.
Mr Wang, who moved to Australia five years ago, had parked his blue Toyota sedan in Blair St about 11am, when he was spotted climbing down the ladder to the fishing spot.
Friend Harry Wu said Mr Wang took up rock fishing this year.
It was only the second time the Parramatta man had fished at the Bondi Murk, which is accessed by a rusty ladder down a sheer cliff face near the Bondi Golf Club.
"He was a beginner. He went down to the same spot the weekend before for the first time and didn't have any trouble," Mr Wu said.
"His wife is in shock. He had just got permanent residency and was looking for work."
Surf Life Saving Australia CEO Brett Williamson said that Asian communities would be targeted to get the safety message across.
The group has hired multi-lingual public relations specialists to target non-English speaking communities.
EMILY Wang is pregnant, alone and now in fear that she could be deported after losing her husband.
EMILY Wang is pregnant, alone and in fear that she could be deported from Australia.
The 28-year-old is desperate for answers after her husband Qintao was swept to his death two weeks ago fishing off rocks near Bondi Beach.
She also called for other amateur Asian rock fishermen to wear life jackets and steel spiked shoes to avoid any more such tragedies.
Ms Wang, who is 10 weeks pregnant with their first child, has engaged a commercial diving company to find Qintao.
"They will conduct a private search near the fishing spot where he went missing. I have also thought about going to a psychic to find him," Ms Wang said.
"I need to see Qintao. In my culture it is very important that we can have closure and put him to rest. But I have not given up hope on him."
A South Strathfield man became the 17th rock fishing casualty this year after he was washed off the Kiama headland on Friday night.
The 41-year-old is the latest statistic in what is already one of the worst seasons for rock fishing-related drownings.
More than 90 per cent of the victims were of Asian descent.
"I ask anyone who wants to go fishing to learn from this and make sure they have the right equipment because it is very hard to deal with when you lose somebody," she said.
The unemployed Ms Wang is looking after her parents and Qintao's parents at her tiny Parramatta home. As well as coping with the loss of her husband, 29, Ms Wang may be deported from the country.
Two Sydney law firms have taken up her case pro bono but said their hands were tied.
Lin Tang and Co solicitor Vivienne Yang said because Qintao was listed as the primary applicant on the permanent residency form, Ms Wang would not be eligible.
"Unless Emily is sponsored by an employer and gets work, she may be deported or will have to seek a temporary visa," Ms Yang said.
Ms Wang said she studied as a pastry chef when she moved to Australia in 2005 and she said she was willing to work to salvage her Australian dream.
"I really like it here in Australia. Qintao always wanted us to raise our family here and send our children to school here so that is what I want to do," she said.
A special account has also been launched by Chen Shan Lawyers to help raise money for Ms Wang.