TAS: One rescued, one missing after boat capsizes

AAP General News (Australia)
04-12-2007
TAS: One rescued, one missing after boat capsizes

HOBART, April 12 AAP - One person has been rescued and another is missing after a boat
capsized off Tasmania's west coast.

Police said a man wearing a life jacket was clinging to the upturned five metre aluminium
runabout when he was pulled on board a fishing boat, which answered calls from a local
radio station to offer assistance.

The man has been transferred to a larger cray fishing boat and was being treated by
a paramedic who was winched aboard by helicopter.

A search is continuing for another person, who was on the capsized boat.

"The Westpac rescue helicopter and police are searching the shallows and beaches for
the missing person," a police spokesman said.

Police were alerted to the incident about 8.30 (AEDT) this morning by a member of the
public and the man was hauled to safety shortly before 11am (AEDT) today in swells of
two to three metres.

The boat has been washed up on shore.

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KEYWORD: RESCUE

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