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A search and rescue effort resumed on Wednesday for a teenager who went missing in waters off Victoria\u2019s far west coast on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Two teenagers were swimming in the ocean off Blowholes Road in Cape Bridgewater when one of the boys was swept into the ocean about 7pm.<\/p>\n
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The search was called off about 11.30pm on Tuesday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n Emergency services responded to the incident shortly after, but search efforts were paused when one of the teenagers, aged 14, had not been found after three hours.<\/p>\n The second teenager, a 15-year-old boy, was transported to hospital in a stable condition with injuries to his upper and lower body, shortly after 7.15pm.<\/p>\n The families of the boys gathered on the cliffs of the notoriously dangerous rock pools near the town of Portland on Tuesday evening while a large-scale search operation got underway.<\/p>\n Ambulance Victoria said a woman in her 40s was assessed at the scene but no emergency treatment or transport was required.<\/p>\n The boys were swimming at an unpatrolled section of the beach close to dusk, in choppy conditions.<\/p>\n Victoria Police said they had conducted an extensive search in the waters until 11.30pm.<\/p>\n The SES, police and Life Saving Victoria were part of the large-scale search effort on Tuesday. Police resumed the search on Wednesday as the second boy continued to recover at a Portland hospital.<\/p>\n Friends of the boys were in shock as they learnt of the incident, which has shaken the tight-knit Cape Bridgewater community just days before Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n