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Rescue teams are desperately searching a popular waterway for an unknown number of missing persons after a horror collision between a catamaran and a tinnie left two other men injured.
Police responded to reports of a boating accident at Runaway Bay, a northern suburb of the Gold Coast, around 4:45am on Friday.
A member of the public reported the incident after his 12m catamaran was rammed by an out-of-control tinnie which had earlier hit a channel marker on Broadwater at Southport.
Two men were treated by emergency workers, one aged 34 and the other 36, with the younger man later placed into an induced coma by paramedics.
The 36-year-old swam from the water to Paradise Point before both men were assessed for arm and leg injuries and taken to Gold Coast University Hospital.
Emergency teams were called to Runaway Bay, a suburb on the northern Gold Coast, after reports that a tinnie had crashed
When paramedics arrived they found two men aged in their 30s injured - they were both rushed to Gold Coast University Hospital with arm and leg injuries
Senior Sergeant Peter Venz from Water Police Gold Coast said that emergency crews were actively searching for the missing men.
'One person, possibly three, have been ejected into the water,' Snr Sgt Venz said.
Debris was strewn across hundreds of metres after the head on collision. Both trucks caught fire and three people were killed (Picture: Hume Hwy Trucks)
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'A fourth person has become seriously injured and lodged in the boat in a position where he couldn't move.'
Rescuers found the man stuck near his seat and said he had sustained heavy blood loss.
The catamaran's skipper, David Crossley, told the Courier Mail that he and his wife were woken up by the sound of the tinnie
