Saturday, June 22, 2013

20062013 PNG SAR

20 JUNE 2013 SEARCH AND RESCUE UNDERWAY NORTH OF PORT MORESBY The Australian Maritime Safety Authority is coordinating a search and rescue north of Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea following a distress broadcast early this morning. AMSA received a shipping distress call and an emergency beacon activation at 3:30am on Thursday morning. The location of the alerts was 80nm north of Port Moresby. A plane was diverted to the area and at 9:00am reported sighting an upturned barge and three life rafts in the water, one with people in it.

Source: http://media.australia.gov.au/notify/click.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amsa.gov.au%2Fmedia%2Fmedia%26%2345%3Breleases%2F2013%2Fdocuments%2F20062013pngsar.pdf&collection=releases&rank=14&auth=mCH3zaTYf5uBgNvHlZAllA

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