{"id":375798,"date":"2024-03-13T22:54:39","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T23:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=375798"},"modified":"2024-03-14T01:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T01:02:27","slug":"absolutely-tragic-death-leaves-slater-family-in-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=375798","title":{"rendered":"'Absolutely tragic' death leaves Slater family in shock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Smith<\/a> has opened up about the "tragedy" that has devastated the family of his former champion teammate Billy Slater<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\ufeffSlater's brother-in-law Ryan Craig died at the weekend in a drowning near Mackay in Queensland.<\/p>\n

Craig – who was married to Slater's older sister Sheena – drowned in Kinchant Dam but managed to save the life of his nine-year-old daughter<\/a>, who he reportedly held afloat until a passing jetski was able to pick her up.<\/p>\n

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The body of the 40-year-old father of four was found on Monday morning, leaving Slater and his extended family shattered.<\/p>\n

"Really, really sad story," former Storm captain Smith told SEN's The Captain's Run with Cameron Smith and Denan Kemp<\/em>.<\/p>\n

"I found out Monday morning about this absolute tragedy. It happened Saturday afternoon up in the Mackay area where Billy's sister Sheena and her family live.<\/p>\n

\"Billy<\/p>\n

"They were just out on the water. They live very close to the dam where Ryan tragically passed away. And it's their regular place where they just go for family outings.<\/p>\n

"I rang Billy and spoke with him and he just said, 'Look, it's an absolutely tragic (set of) circumstances, given the situation'.<\/p>\n

"It's somewhere they spend a lot of time with the kids growing up. They've got four kids. They've got four little girls.<\/p>\n

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"They were out on the water and just a sequence of events really led to Ryan and his eldest daughter falling in the water and unfortunately, a bit of weather blew up and it blew the boat away from where they'd fallen in the water and the boat couldn't be started.<\/p>\n

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"It was a heroic effort, really, from Ryan to stay afloat as long as he did to save his daughter.<\/p>\n

"He eventually ran out of energy. Some jet skiers came along a little bit later and I don't know how – it's just a miracle – that the little girl was still afloat.<\/p>\n

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"Ryan went under and subsequently passed away. Really tragic events and we send our condolences out to Sheena, who is Billy's sister and the wife of Ryan. Those four little girls that have lost their dad."<\/p>\n

Slater has not yet commented publicly on Craig's death.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cameron Smith has opened up about the "tragedy" that has devastated the family of his former champion teammate Billy Slater. \ufeffSlater's brother-in-law Ryan Craig died […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":375800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375801,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375798\/revisions\/375801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}