A couple are ‘lucky to be alive’ after they were smashed by a giant wave while trying to take a selfie.
The man and woman had been enjoying the wild weather and watching on as massive 4.1m swells crashed against Nobbys Breakwall in Newcastle, north of Sydney early Monday morning.
Moments later the pair were washed away by a monster wave and disappeared into the whitewash with the harrowing moment captured on camera by shocked bystanders.
‘I realised they disappeared and went down, where they were scrambling onto the rocks,’ Ben Arkinstall told NBN News.
