2 Yachties Rescued

Got a call from one of the home bases last night alerting us of a mayday call sent out from a sinking yacht with two locals on board. By the time I'd got down there the rescue boat was well on its way to the position given during the mayday call and a radio operator and co ordinator had things up and going .

Some twenty minutes later and we got a call from water police letting us know that their epirb had been set off and Canberra AUSSAR  centre had their position from the first satellite pass. Got a second position report from Canberra giving a new position some 1nm away from the first oneand looking as though it was in the same direction as the tidal current flow. We got another call from water police telling us the search and resue dornier plane with all the high tech search gear had taken off and was on its way.

Some ten to fifteen minutes later we got the call from the boat that we all love to hear that they had sighted the blokes in the water clinging to the submerged yacht and were heading over to get them out of the drink .Both men were pulled on board and were on the way back in and the planes assistance would not be needed.

Cheers all round in the radio room for a job well done. They arived back in at around 0130 in the morning cold and wet but still alive and thats the bit that is most important.

From info given to us from water police, this is the third epirb actuation this month resulting in persons having to be rescued while in the water after their boats had either sunk or were full submerged and all have finished with all being rescued alive.

 


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Goes to show you, always have

Mon, 2011-06-20 20:57

Goes to show you, always have the safety equipment on your boat and make sure it's upgraded, you just never know when something bad might happen.

Technology saves yet another person.

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Good to hear all went well,

Mon, 2011-06-20 21:06

Good to hear all went well, hats off to all the rescuer's involved and working with each other to perform successful rescue.

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Great work folks! 

Mon, 2011-06-20 22:45

Great work folks!

 

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good work for your team up

Tue, 2011-06-21 05:58

good work for your team up there dad,ever one safe and sound

 

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Just goes to shoe the

Tue, 2011-06-21 11:47

Just goes to shoe the importance of having the correct saftey Gear.

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Good work guys. How did the

Tue, 2011-06-21 12:27

Good work guys. How did the new naiad go? I just did my marsar on the weekend and was impressed with how effective epirbs and the follow up system actually is. The past month has seen something like a dozen people pulled from the water due wholely to epirb activation and that's just wa.

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Naiad

Tue, 2011-06-21 14:00

The boys took the old boat out, not being up to date on the Naiad they thought it would be safer in one they knew backwards.

Due to having a shoulder rebuild op on Friday I could only help with the co ordination side of things but in a pinch taken the Naiad out if needed as a back up.

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Canarvonite - Is there a story behind this?

Wed, 2011-06-22 11:32

Two sinkings for him in recent times? I read in the West that they were on board a yacht called 'Chalo' which was headed toward the site his previous boat also named 'Chalo' had sunk? Or something along those lines?

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Story

Wed, 2011-06-22 15:53

The first yacht was named Chalo and once it was written off he bought a smaller yacht, he once owned before and renamed it Chalo as well. He hadn't quite finished all the paperwork on the transfer and name change when it went down. The original epirb from the first wrecked boat was the one used for the second sinking, having us believe it was a false alarm but soon straightened out after a few phone calls to the yacht club.