Botany Bay Water Police are investigating the death of a woman who became tangled in ropes after she fell from a boat at Blakehurst yesterday.
Police said the woman, 71, was was standing on a boat on the Georges River and fell into the water while it was mooring.
Her husband threw her a rope, but she became tangled and needed help getting out of the water.
Police said the woman was conscious and breathing when she was removed from the water, but that she died later in St George Hospital.
They will prepare a report for the coroner.
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