POLICE are urging swimmers to take extreme care in the Murrumbidgee River in the wake of the feared drowning of a man at Oura.
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Fast and deep water in late December and January makes the Murrumbidgee a particularly dangerous place to swim.
Before this latest tragedy two other men have drowned in the river at Wagga this year - 19-year-old Chris Sahn at the Wagga beach on January 20 and 23-year-old Brent Little at the Wiradjuri Reserve on April 11.
"The river is (now) quite full due to the irrigation season," said Wagga police duty officer Peter Robertson, who was overseeing the search at Oura on Friday for a man who went missing in the river on Thursday.
"It is currently flowing at about five knots.
"It is quite full, quite fast, quite deep and dangerous to anyone who does not know what they are doing.
"Please take the utmost care, and if you are not sure what you are doing please don't enter the water."
