The father of a teenage boy who tragically drowned at a Sunshine Coast waterfall has paid tribute to his son for trying to save his friend's life – and he's urged authorities to close the popular waterhole after heavy rainfall.
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00:00A father's grief after learning of his son's death.
00:05He was liked by everyone, had a lot of mates, everyone's just distraught at the moment.
00:12Seventeen-year-old Bo Little was swimming with friends at Wappa Falls when tragedy struck.
00:17Another seventeen-year-old, on a ward, was swept downstream by rapids and over the falls.
00:23Bo tried to rescue her, but disappeared.
00:27That's the type of person he was, he'd put himself in danger just to help someone.
00:33Police divers and swift water rescue crews searched the area and found the girl's body
00:38in the afternoon and Bo's after dark.
00:41Wappa Dam received 40mm of rain on Saturday night and was overflowing at the spillway.
00:47When it's calm it's a beautiful waterhole, but it's just when this rain starts coming
00:50down it's just, yeah, it gets deadly and some people just think it'll be alright, I
00:56guess.
00:57There could be a lot more done than a couple of little signs there that say dangerous water,
01:03block off the thing, you don't want people getting in there.
01:06There have been multiple fatalities at Wappa Falls over the years and authorities are once
01:10again reminding people to take care at waterholes this summer.
01:15Police will prepare a report for the coroner.