Water police, PolAir and a Challenger plane combed the waters off the coast of Port Lincoln after 5 folks didn’t return from a fishing journey yesterday afternoon.
It’s understood the fishing boat they had been on was struck by a wave off Spilsby Island and all 5 had been thrown overboard.
Police discovered the our bodies of the remaining two lacking males at round 9am and a couple of.15pm, after the primary physique was discovered within the water at round 6.30am.
A rescue helicopter noticed a 13-year-old boy and a 44-year-old man, a father and son, clinging to the reef at round 2 a.m., close to the place the boat capsized.
They had been taken to security and airlifted to Adelaide Hospital the place they’re now recovering.
The opposite three persons are understood to be two different members of the family and a tour operator.
Shortly after 9 a.m., a second particular person was discovered lifeless close to the ship.
At roughly 2:15 p.m., police discovered the physique of the third lacking man.
Police weren’t alerted to the incident till members of the family reported that that they had didn’t return residence, which was roughly 4 hours after the incident.
“We acquired no EPIRB (Emergency Location Indicating Radio Beacon) activation, no radio calls had been seen, no flares had been seen, and from what the survivors informed us, there was no time to activate any of that anyway,” Police Superintendent South Africa Paul. Bahr mentioned.
Police, native marine rescue and a contest plane from Australian Search and Rescue (AUSSAR) are helping within the search.