Divers found after boat sunk near Darwin Australia

[Peter69_56]

Two fishermen have been rescued from waters 41km north-east of Darwin after they were found clinging to a marker buoy.
The pair reported they had been diving near the Vernon Islands, when they returned to the surface to find their boat had sunk.

Tale of survival: fishermen found clinging to marker buoy 41km north-east of Darwin​

 

[TN-Steve]

Two important lessons....

1. Don't leave the boat unattended....
2. Have an Emergency Location Beacon or a combined Radio / Beacon

Those beacons are incredible. When I was the Operations NCO of a small airfield in Alaska, we got a call one night from Scott AFB (who at the time coordinated the response for beacon hits). Said that a beacon was going off in our location, could we check. Sure enough, one of the helo's somehow had it triggered. It was just a couple of minutes from the time it got triggered to when the call came in if memory serves.