Non-Stop Weekend Workout for Marine Rescue Volunteers

4:44 AM Tue 7 Sep 2010 GMT

'Fathers Day Tow' . Click Here to view large photo

Volunteer crews from Marine Rescue units were working non-stop in last weekend's appalling conditions. Their marine radios were alive with an unprecedented number of calls for help, reports of vessels adrift from moorings and grounded vessels. The popular Pittwater-Broken Bay-Brisbane Water and Hawkesbury region proved to be very risky for many who ventured out, including several houseboats that experienced very rough conditions. Commander David White from Marine Rescue Cottage Point said, 'I have not seen wind conditions in Broken Bay of this magnitude in over 45 years of boating in the area. They were infrequently less than 30kts during this ...

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by Ken McManus, Marine Rescue