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The CH-149 Cormorant helicopter responded to the distress beacon sent by the crew of the Silver Condor.
Emergency services were alerted to an EPIRB activation. A Challenger 604 aircraft was deployed to attend the area.
After activating his personal locator beacon, the rescue helicopter was “quickly” dispatched. A paramedic was dropped 500m from the man.
Rescuers picked up the men, two Russians and a Frenchman, after their emergency beacon sent out a distress call.
Ground crews were dispatched after the men, aged in their 60s, activated a personal locator beacon.
First Coast Guard District received an alert from an EPIRB registered to the 55-foot commercial fishing vessel.
HM Coastguard was alerted to an activated emergency position indicating radio beacon at 16:25 south of the Needles Lighthouse.
One mission involved a ELT signal from a small aircraft crash and the second mission involved a call from a hiker's personal locator beacon.
The sailor activated his emergency rescue beacon after he was hurt in large ocean swells off the South Australian coast.
