Valuable safety advice from two fishermen whose lifejackets and EPIRBs – and a rapid response by the emergency services – saved their lives when their boat sank offshore from Nambucca last Wesdnesday morning.
Matt Barber and Joe Mitchell tell PRIME7 News North Coast how their lifejackets kept them afloat and EPIRBs guided rescue crews to them in the ocean.
Crews from Marine Rescue Trial Bay, Marine Rescue Coffs Harbour and Marine Rescue Nambucca, the NSW Police Force and the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter were rapidly under way in response to the life-threatening emergency.
The crew of Trial Bay 30 located the pair in the water, rushing them back to shore to be reunited with their families.
See the video here on the Prime 7 website
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