A pair of Yeppoon fisherman on a father-son trip has rescued a couple who survived three days treading water at sea. The pair anchored at a sandbar at Yellow Patch on Curtis Island in Queensland on Mon night, and were just drifting off when they were awoken by calls for...
A pair of Yeppoon fisherman on a father-son trip has rescued a couple who survived three days treading water at sea.
The pair anchored at a sandbar at Yellow Patch on Curtis Island in Queensland on Mon night, and were just drifting off when they were awoken by calls for help through 20-knot winds and pouring rain.
“We turned all the lights on and saw a young couple floating past in the tide…they were only treading water, they had no board or anything,” one of the men told the ABC.
“They were barely keeping their head above the water, they were that buggered they couldn’t tread water anymore.”
“We just got [them] in the dinghy and dragged them over the side…they just collapsed”.
Once the couple was on board, they rested through the night, had hot showers, some food, and changed clothes.
The couple was swept away while on a trip at North West Island on the Barrier Reef.
