Mobile Phone and Floatation Device Saves Man: Around noon on Saturday 4 October, the volunteers at Marine Rescue Central Coast were tasked by the Water Police to investigate a report of a man in the water off Point Frederick in Brisbane Water. Rescue vessel Central Coast 20 with Alan Howes in command and crew of Karl Liepa, Jim Robertson and Steve Finney were dispatched and were in the area in about 5 minutes. They found a man in the water and his kayak nearby. Once helped aboard Central Coast 20 the man explained that he had been in the water for about two hours but had been unable to attract attention from any passing boat or even from yachts in a local yacht race that he had seen sail by. The man was being kept afloat by his floatation vest, but was in danger of becoming hypothermic. Desperate, he chanced taking his mobile phone from its waterproof case and calling 000 for help. The Marine Rescue crew took the much relieved man and his kayak to Gosford where he had left his car earlier in the day.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 03:36:36 +0000
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