Wed 23 Nov, 2016 7:51 am
Wed 23 Nov, 2016 9:09 am
Wed 23 Nov, 2016 8:07 pm
Thu 24 Nov, 2016 6:53 am
Tortoise wrote:Any news on the apparent rescue from Federation yesterday? Keen on finding out more - it might have been the party we met.
Thu 24 Nov, 2016 8:09 am
Fri 25 Nov, 2016 5:19 am
Tortoise wrote:Any news on the apparent rescue from Federation yesterday? Keen on finding out more - it might have been the party we met.
Mon 28 Nov, 2016 8:08 am
Tue 06 Dec, 2016 10:33 pm
Wed 07 Dec, 2016 4:57 am
Wed 07 Dec, 2016 8:36 pm
Aztec wrote:Just cruising YouTube as you do...
This guy has an up and personal view of helicopter rescue in action!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cl7cF7SfkI
Jump to the 8 minute mark!
Fri 09 Dec, 2016 10:01 am
The Tasmania Police Westpac rescue helicopter was activated this morning for a medivac to the southern forest, landing at Heritage Park, Geeveston where two walkers were picked up. Good result as always for the helicopter crew!
Fri 09 Dec, 2016 7:56 pm
Sat 10 Dec, 2016 8:17 am
Tue 27 Dec, 2016 10:51 am
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter has attended two separate incidents on Monday 26/1/216. The first incident was a PLB activation by a 42 year old Moonah man who became lost during a bushwalk near Lake Undine in the Cradle Mountain Lake St. Clair National Park. The helicopter crew were able to locate him quickly due to the PLB and he was winched from the scene uninjured. During the return flight back to Hobart the helicopter was tasked to Alonnah to medivac a 51 year old woman from Western Australia who was suffering from a serious medical condition. The woman was flown to the Royal Hobart Hospital.
Tue 27 Dec, 2016 3:32 pm
Wed 28 Dec, 2016 6:27 pm
Wed 28 Dec, 2016 9:20 pm
Wed 28 Dec, 2016 10:19 pm
Strider wrote:Does anyone know if PLBs transmit any information that allows them to be distinguished from EPIRBs when activated? Surely this would be the easiest way (though not foolproof) of determining whether the activation is maritime or terrestrial.
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Wed 28 Dec, 2016 10:28 pm
Thu 29 Dec, 2016 1:11 pm
benoloughlin wrote:Strider wrote:Does anyone know if PLBs transmit any information that allows them to be distinguished from EPIRBs when activated? Surely this would be the easiest way (though not foolproof) of determining whether the activation is maritime or terrestrial.
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I think that information gets recorded when the device is registered with AMSA.
Sun 01 Jan, 2017 5:54 pm
Mon 02 Jan, 2017 1:37 pm
Overlandman wrote:The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was forced to fly through the D’Entrecasteaux Channel and the Huon River to attend a 58-year-old Victorian bushwalker who had broken her leg on Sunday morning.
Mon 02 Jan, 2017 3:40 pm
Fri 06 Jan, 2017 8:33 am
Fri 06 Jan, 2017 8:18 pm
Mon 09 Jan, 2017 11:19 am
Wed 18 Jan, 2017 9:25 pm
Thu 19 Jan, 2017 6:07 pm
Overlandman wrote:One from today's Advocate
http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/437 ... t/?cs=5312
A bushwalker suffering a medical condition on a remote track south of Macquarie Harbour has been rescued by the Westpac Rescue Helicopter.
The EPIRB was activated about 12.14pm on the remote West Coast between Birthday Bay and Bama Bay.
Sydney to Hobart Yachting Race Control were contacted and advised that no vessels were in the area and the names supplied with the EPIRB were not registered on any participating vessel in any race.
Thus the EPIRB activation, with relative certainty, was a bushwalker.
Police confirmed that the EPIRB was registered to two women, from Maroubra and Petersham in NSW, who were in Tasmania bushwalking.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was deployed and arrived at the scene at 2.28pm.
Regards OLM
Fri 20 Jan, 2017 10:03 am
Sun 22 Jan, 2017 8:35 am
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