I find it hard to sympathise when it looks like it was caused by his own stupidity and it put other peoples lives at risk too.

Completely agree with u jedd, none the less RIP, very sad for his family.

Well I won’t be relying on Jedd or Theresa to throw me a rope that’s for sure.

@ Alan, if u jump into a river of your own free will and get into difficulty why should I put my life in danger trying to get u out…..

Ambulance/firefighters/life guards all trained life savers, In an ideal world we’d all like to think we’d be the first to jump in a save a drowning person, im just being realistic, If the waiter was drowned saving those men would you be still so sanctimonious

The Yarra River at Federation Square is cold, dark and tidal. As a Melburnian, I wouldn’t jump into it in the middle of the day, let alone at night, to save some one because then the authorities would have to be rescuing two people. (Would you jump into the Liffey at the O’Connell Bridge in the middle of the night?) I can only guess that the waiter was a strong swimmer who knew what he was doing.

There has to be a better way to get the message through to some young men that doing some things, jumping in the Yarra at night for example, are extremely foolish with a extremely high potential of being fatal.

How is the survivor going to feel for the rest of his life?

The English chap who jumped in was very brave, a panicking drowner can easily drag down their savior.

The waiter served both men in the nearby bar earlier in the night. He heard them talk about swimming across the Yarra and warned them of the dangers. He later heard tham call out for help & jumped in (as well as some others) & got one of them out, The other had already sunk, so he couldn’t see him to try & get him out. Saw the waiter interviewed in the news about 1 hr ago. He has been nominated for a bravery award.

By the way they say here in Melbourne that the Yarra is the colour that it is cos it flows up side down. Extremly murky, be impossible to see anything.
RIP