Spike in NSW holiday drownings

RECENT WATER-RELATED DEATHS IN NSW:

JANUARY 11:

* A two-year-old boy one week after being pulled unconscious from a domestic pond in Sydney's Fairfield West

JANUARY 3:

* Former Family Court judge Richard Gee, 83, found in his backyard pool in Belrose

JANUARY 2:

* A 44-year-old man at Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains

JANUARY 1:

* A two-year-old girl in a backyard pool in Macquarie Fields

DECEMBER 30:

* Forty-two-year-old Peter Abd-El-Kaddous in the Murrumbidgee River at Wagga Wagga

* A 46-year-old man at Yamba on NSW north coast

* Fourteen-year-old Tui Gallaher at Sydney's Maroubra beach

* A 27-year-old Pakistani man at a waterhole at Mermaid Pools in Sydney's south

*A man aged in his 70s pulled from Lady Robinsons Beach in Sydney's south

DECEMBER 29:

* A two-year-old twin boy a week after being pulled unconscious from a backyard swimming pool in Sydney

DECEMBER 28:

* A 64-year-old Kyogle man at Belongil Beach, Byron Bay

DECEMBER 27:

* A man at The Entrance baths on the NSW central coast

* A 25-year-old man at Greendale in western Sydney after going missing on Boxing Day

DECEMBER 26:

* Geoffrey Blackadder, 60, at Wooli Beach on the NSW north coast

* A 56-year-old man at Merry Beach at Kioloa on NSW south coast

* A 59-year-old man near the entrance of the Evan's River on the NSW north coast

* A 27-year-old man at Kangaroo Valley in the Shoalhaven region

* A two-year-old twin girl in a backyard swimming pool incident with her brother in Sydney

DECEMBER 25:

* A 27-year-old man at the Wattamolla lagoon at Royal National Park, south of Sydney