Helicopter Rescues in Tasmania "2"

[Mountain Rocket]

Not 100% sure if this is the same person or another rescued from the SCT, but there is a bit more detail:

'Missing Bushwalker Located on South Coast Track
At 11am today a man was reported missing by the other three members of his walking party after he failed to meet them at South Cape Rivulet. The party of four were walking from Melaleuca to Cockle Creek when, on 21/11/2016, the man became separated from the other three in the vicinity of Flat Rock Plain after he elected to walk more slowly, and catch up with them at South Cape Rivulet. The other three walkers waited until the following morning, but after the man failed to arrive they walked out to Cockle Creek and requested assistance. The area was searched by members of Tasmania Police Search & Rescue and the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, and the missing man was located at 9pm today in the vicinity of Flat Rock Plain. He was found to be in good condition and suffering no injuries, and was airlifted to Hobart.'
From https://www.facebook.com/thevigilantene ... 2107211763

[Overlandman]

The big red & yellow taxi flies once more.

[Tortoise]

Any news on the apparent rescue from Federation yesterday? Keen on finding out more - it might have been the party we met.

[doogs]

Any news on the apparent rescue from Federation yesterday? Keen on finding out more - it might have been the party we met.

Tas Police Facebook page says it was 'a group of 4 and the injured bushwalker was located by the westpac chopper'. No other details that I could find.

[Tortoise]

Thanks doogs. I'll stay tuned. One of these years I'll have to join Facebook.

[climberman]

Any news on the apparent rescue from Federation yesterday? Keen on finding out more - it might have been the party we met.

Glad it wasn't my fiend or I, in there the week before!

[Overlandman]

A woman was rescued by the Westpac rescue helicopter from the Cradle Mountain area
around 6:30PM yesterday with a suspected leg fracture.

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/431945 ... ain/?cs=95

Regards OLM

[Aztec]

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!

[dunamis]

I notice that Air Rescues show on TV did an amazing rescue of a rock climber down in the south of the state. Did anyone else see that? I recognised one of the crew


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[benoloughlin]

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!

I remember that day. The day before I had made it up to the Summit. The next day I was leading a group of people on a guided canoe trip on Dove Lake and was watching the rescue helicopter hover above the summit track. Rescues, whether they can be observed from afar or just talked about - they are a good opportunity to discuss preparedness and managing risk.

[Mountain Rocket]

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!

From https://www.facebook.com/thevigilantene ... 2765973697

[Overlandman]

Story in today's Advocate.

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/434 ... s/?cs=5312

Regards OLM

[stepbystep]

Doogs and I retrieved items from the pack of the walker who fell and broke his leg on Federation a few weeks back. His fiancé had left an engagement ring in there!! Looking at where he fell he's very lucky to be alive. We carried out as much as we could. It would be good to see the rest recovered before the weather destroys it...

[Mountain Rocket]

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.

https://www.facebook.com/thevigilantene ... 881397152/

[stepbystep]

If there are active S & R operations, you can 'spy' on the helicopter movements using this site. I've used it while working in the media but found it useful when trying to keep friends and family informed about what's happening as events unfold. A bit voyeuristic, but also very interesting...

https://www.flightradar24.com/-42.84,147.52/13

[Overlandman]

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

[Strider]

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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[benoloughlin]

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.

[Overlandman]

The media always get EPIRB and PLB mixed up.
Ben is correct about the information being recorded by AMSA when the device is registered.
Regards OLM

[Strider]

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.

Ah yes, of course

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[Overlandman]

From the Advocate

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/438 ... g/?cs=5312

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.

[north-north-west]

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.

It's submersible?!
Wow! I'd like to see that.

[Overlandman]

May as well be submersible. Crap weather with heavy rain.
Regards OLM

[Overlandman]

From the Advocate

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/438 ... y/?cs=5312

A 45-year-old tourist was airlifted to hospital after falling at Cradle Mountain on Thursday.

The New Zealand-born woman was walking with family when she slipped and fell, breaking several ribs.

[Overlandman]

(The Acropolis is a fair distance from Cradle)
Another one from the Advocate

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/200 ... ain/?cs=86

A WOMAN was winched to safety after she fell and injured her leg at Cradle Mountain today.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was activated at about 1pm to travel to the injured South Australian walker who was located on the side of the Acropolis in the Cradle Mountain Lake St. Clair National Park.

[Son of a Beach]

The helicopter has been used to extract a rafter with an injured ankle from the Franklin River this morning:

http://www.examiner.com.au/story/439237 ... est/?cs=95

Fincham Crossing is the only place to land a helicopter anywhere near the Franklin. I assume they landed on the pad there. It would have to be a winch job if they'd been any further downstream.

[Mountain Rocket]

"Approximately 2.30pm on Wednesday 18 January 2017, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter was tasked to attend Hazards Beach on the Freycinet Peninsular to evacuate a 13 year old NSW boy with a suspected snake bite.
The helicopter was able to land close to the beach a short distance from the boy who was placed in a stretcher and carried to the heliopter with the assistance of the boys father, sister and other bushwalkers who had stopped to help.
He was flown to the Cenotaph in Hobart and transferred to the Royal Hobart Hospital in a stable condition.
While tranferring the patient to the ambulance at 3.10pm, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter was tasked to attend Hartz Peak to assist a bushwalker who had fallen while walking on the eastern side of the peak.
He sustained a serious arm injury with a long bone deep laceration.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter arrived at the peak with south westerly winds gusting to 35 knots.
The Ambulance Tasmania intensive care flight paramedic and Tasmania Police rescue crewman were winched to the ground near the patient.
A short time later the man was winched into the helicopter with the paramedic.
The Helicopter landed a short distance away while the man received further treatment and the rescue crewman and the man's walking partner walked to the helicopter.
He was transported to the Cenotaph where he was transferred to a waiting ambulance in a stable condition."
https://www.facebook.com/thevigilantene ... 973207176/

[kjbeath]

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

A Sydney to Hobart yacht would be very lost, either having decided to take the much more difficult route to Hobart along the west coast or had overshot Hobart and was now going up the west coast.

There are boats along the west coast. Tourists who like rough weather and fishing boats.

[Mountain Rocket]

"EPIRB Activation and Rescue - Shoemakers Bay
At 6.20pm yesterday, the Australian Search and Rescue Co-ordination centre in Canberra, notified Tasmania Police that they had detected an EPIRB in Shoemakers Bay on the South Coast of Tasmania. The GPS EPIRB had sent co-ordinates of its position via satellite to AUSAR.
The beacon was registered to a gentleman who had registered a walk on the South Coast Track with two other gentleman.
The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was activated and flew to the campsite on the South Coast Track at Shoemakers Bay.
The Ambulance Tasmania Intensive Care Flight Paramedic and Tasmania Police rescue crewman were winched to the campsite, where they found the registered walking party. They had activated the beacon on behalf of another walking party, a Mother and her two girls, from East Fremantle, WA.
One of the girls had slipped and fallen down an embankment with a vertical drop at the base, falling on to rocks below. She sustained bumps to the head, substantial grazing and an injury to her arm.
The girls mother was winched to the aircraft, followed by the girl and the paramedic. They were then transported to Ryan's Point at Cockle Creek, the helicopter returning to the South Coast to retrieve the other daughter and the rescue crewman.
All three were then transported to the Hobart Cenotaph where the girl was transferred to a waiting ambulance and taken to the Royal Hobart Hospital.
The Family were well prepared for the walk with good quality equipment."
From https://www.facebook.com/Tas.Police/pho ... 357334828/

[Overlandman]

One from the Leven Canyon

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/441 ... r/?cs=5312

A Tasmania Police search operation has rescued a disorientated bushwalker in urgent need of insulin at Leven Canyon.

About 8.30pm on Saturday Tasmania Police received a call about the bushwalker, who needed the insulin due to his medical condition.

Police from Ulverstone and Road and Public Order Services attended Leven Canyon area and began trekking towards the estimated location of the bushwalker.

Due to the possibility of a severe medical condition developing, the Westpac Rescue Helicopter was also tasked to assist in the search for the 23-year-old diabetic man,who had hypoglycaemia.

It emerged the three friends had planned to complete the Leven Canyon Lookout loop track before becoming disoriented and followed the track to Dobson’s Flat.

The diabetic man had been carrying sufficient supplies for 4 hours - having expected to only be walking for around an hour.

When he became hypoglycaemic, one friend kept walking to raise the alarm.

The men lit a fire using the sleeve of a shirt which allowed the crew of the helicopter on night vision goggles to see them from more than three kilometres away.

Follow up story from Jason

http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/441 ... f/?cs=5312