Elyse Knowles and Josh Barker attend dawn memorial for Alex Pullin

Model Elyse Knowles and her boyfriend Josh Barker paid tribute to late snowboarder Alex Pullin on Saturday.

The Block stars attended a moving dawn memorial at the beach where the snowboarding champion drowned while spearfishing.

The memorial was also attended by Pullin’s heartbroken partner Ellidy Vlug and a number of his surfing mates.

Sharing some footage from the scene to Instagram, Knowles wrote: ‘A beautiful morning remembering the legend @alexchumpypullin.’

‘So many loved ones,’ she added in another post. 

They weren’t the only celebrities there, with famed surfer Mick Fanning also attending. 

Pullin had been alone in the water at Palm Beach, on the Gold Coast, when he suffered an underwater blackout on Wednesday morning.

Paramedics performed CPR for 45-mintues on Pullin but were unable to revive him.

Ms Vlug and a handful of friends waded into the same waters that took her beloved boyfriend to share an emotional farewell.

The group of mourners donned wreaths of flowers around their heads and surf swimsuits – one of Pullin’s passions was to surf during the summer.

Surfer Mick Fanning and Pullin’s father joined the mourners in a paddle out while grieving locals who chose to remain on land planted bouquets of flowers in the sand.

Pullin suffered a shallow water blackout on Wednesday morning while free diving and drowned.

On the morning of his death, the couple woke late before Pullin decided to go get some sun.

Ms Vlug told Daily Mail Australia she last saw her boyfriend alive moments before he’d decided to go for a dive, telling him: ‘Love you, watch out for sharks’. 

Bouquets have been steadily arriving since Wednesday afternoon, and are partially buried in the sand to keep them in place overnight.