At approximately 12.05pm on Saturday 4 April, Marine Rescue Jervis Bay received a call from a 5m vessel that had overturned near Point Perpendicular Jervis Bay.
Rescue vessel Jervis Bay 20 was deployed to assist. At the time of the call, JB 20 was assisting in a separate incident only a few kilometres away. Marine Rescue Jervis Bay radio operators issued a distress call via VHF Channel 16 requesting assistance from any vessels in the area. Private vessel Dreamcatcher successfully retrieved two boaters and liaised with Marine Rescue Jervis Bay who arranged for NSW Ambulance to meet them at Bindajine Beach, near Greenpatch.
Soon after, it was reported that there were six people on the vessel, with the remaining four people thought to be diving at the time the vessel overturned. Marine Rescue vessels Jervis Bay 20 and Jervis Bay 41 were joined by an Australian Federal Police (AFP) vessel in a search for the four unaccounted divers.
The four divers were soon located on Target Beach Jervis Bay, where a Park Ranger met them and arranged transport.
Marine Rescue vessels JB 20 and JB 41 completed an extensive search of the area, the overturned vessel has not been located and is believed to have sunk.
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