Bate Bay surf life saving clubs joined with others around Australia in paying a silent tribute to two Victorian lifesavers, who died during a rescue attempt on Sunday.
Father and son, Ross, 71, and Andrew Powell, 32, who were life-long members of the Port Campbell Surf Life Saving Club, were trying to rescue a tourist near the Twelve Apostles on the south-west coast when their boat flipped.
At 12.30pm on Easter Monday, all clubs on patrol in NSW stood in a line on the beach facing the water and observed a minute's silence.
Wanda and Elouera club members followed the minute's silence with a spontaneous paddle out, forming a circle to honour their fellow lifesavers.
"Proud of all the nippers and nipper parents that took part in this special event as well as former nipper Riley P who captured these beautiful images," said a post on the Wanda Nippers Facebook page .
"We are all part of a very special family being our surf lifesaving family."
The Powells were life-long members of the Port Campbell Surf Life Saving Club and were prominent figures in the local dairy farming industry.
Together with a third lifesaver, they set out in a boat after a 30-year-old male tourist got into trouble wading near the entrance to the Sherbrook River, a 10-minute drive from the Twelve Apostles, about 11am.
Rough surf caused the rescue boat to flip, tossing the three lifesavers into the ocean.
An emergency helicopter was able to winch one of the rescuers and the tourist out of the water, but the bodies of the Powells were found later.
