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Four men rescued after yacht hit reef

The crew were sailing from Adelaide to Portland when around 1:30am last Sunday, 10th May 2015, they hit a reef. They activated an EPIRB and deployed their liferaft. Search and rescue were notified and SA Police launched a search in poor weather conditions. The crew were found safe within a few hours near sand dunes 10km north of Beachport.

Brevet sergeant Peter Phillips told ABC news: “One had a fairly nasty gash above his eye and another one was actually concussed as a result of their emergency life raft flipping over as they were trying to get to shore."
“There is a large hole in bottom of the vessel, caused by the reef. It’s filled with water as well, it’s fairly waterlogged, there’s sand all through the vessel.
“There’s no doubt that their experience in this incident is the reason they have survived this.
“They were all wearing life jackets, they had flares which they activated, they also had two EPIRBs on board.”

The crew were taken to Mount Gambier Hospital for observation.

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MAN RESCUED FROM HIS SAILING BOAT

On 15 August 2012, a man was rescued from his sailing boat thanks to a COSPAS-SARSAT beacon, which provided the only alert in this distress incident.

At 1752, MRCC Gris-Nez received an initial distress alert from a French 406 MHz EPIRB beacon.  This first alert did not provide a location, and MRCC Gris-Nez tried to contact the owner by phone and others means without success. At 1815, the French sailboat was located, thanks to its COSPAS-SARSAT beacon, near Cape Cornwall.

MRCC Falmouth assumed coordination, scrambled one helicopter and diverted a motor vessel on scene. On arriving on scene the helicopter conducted a prolonged search in very poor weather, finally seeing a red flare which located the yacht. The yacht’s single crewman elected to jump into the water on seeing the helicopter, which caused concern to the crew. Despite the perilous weather conditions, the helicopter crew were able to winch the sailor to safety. The sailor was found to have a broken ankle and was evacuated to Trelisk hospital in the UK.

Epirb saves stranded fishos - ntnews.com.au

Epirb saves stranded fishos

NIGEL ADLAM   |  July 29th, 2011

FOUR fishermen were rescued after their boat broke down off a remote stretch of the Territory coast.

They set off their new 406MH Epirb as they floundered at the mouth of the Walker River, 40km west of Nhulunbuy.

The signal was picked up by Canberra's Marine Rescue, which alerted NT police.

Patrol boat Finniss towed the men's 6m boat back to Nhulunbuy.

Senior sergeant Craig Ryan said the incident on Thursday afternoon showed the value of having a 406 Epirb.

He said the old Epirbs were no longer being monitored by rescue services.