Vic: Stranded teenagers winched to safety

AAP General News (Australia)
08-04-2007
Vic: Stranded teenagers winched to safety

EDS: Updates that men were rescued from a beach, not from a boat as in previous story



MELBOURNE, Aug 4 AAP - Two teenagers suffering hypothermia were rescued by a police
helicopter tonight after they became stranded on a deserted beach off Western Port Bay.

The men, aged 17 and 18, were in a three-metre tinnie when they pulled into Sandy Point
Beach near Stony Point in rough seas, Victoria Police said.

The men were on a fishing and camping trip when they got into strife because of rough
seas, police said.

"They could not get back out (into the bay) because of the wild weather and there is
no road access at Sandy Point," police spokeswoman Senior Constable Julie-Anne Newman
said.

The men were winched to safety by the police helicopter and taken to Hastings, south-east
of Melbourne, Metropolitan Ambulance spokesman Ray Rowe said.

An ambulance took the men to Frankston Hospital in a stable condition.

They were receiving treatment for hypothermia.

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KEYWORD: HYPOTHERMIA LEAD

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