MELBOURNE tennis coach Paul Arber accidentally drowned in the Waikato River, a coroner has found.
Mr Arber, 38, who according to Coroner Wallace Bain was also a practice partner for Australian star Bernard Tomic, was found dead in the river at Hamilton last December five days after being reported missing while coaching at a junior tournament in the city.
Dr Bain, in findings published on Friday, said police found no signs of foul play, but his behaviour had recently changed radically and his parents believed he had gone into the river to cleanse himself spiritually.
Mr Arber's father had provided evidence that he had begun searching for higher enlightenment, started practising meditation and yoga, and focusing on the beauty of nature.
Two weeks before he travelled to New Zealand, he became a vegan and would only drink non-fluoridated water.
On the night he went missing, he touched a homeless man on the shoulder and gave him $NZ20. He also talked to strangers, telling them he loved them and words to the effect "we're all the same and ... we are all equal".
The last known sighting of him was about 4am, when two people noticed Mr Arber standing topless in about knee-high water in the river.
They yelled out, telling him it wasn't safe and when they asked him what he was doing, he replied he was "trying to be free".
After five minutes, he walked out of the river and two locals offered to walk him back to his accommodation, but after a short distance, he said he wanted to go back to the river.
His parents told Dr Bain he was not a swimmer and in their view "he entered the water for a spiritual cleanse and sun gaze at sunrise and would have been surprised and unable to handle the undercurrent, and that has led to his accidental drowning".
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