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Three teenagers rescued on WA's Mid West coast after pilots spot help message in sand (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] reef@lemmy.ca 68 points 3 months ago

[-] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 28 points 3 months ago

Damn, one rock short of rescue!

[-] klemptor@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

I see two capital letter Is that have unnecessary serifs.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 3 months ago

lucky they didn't use sticks

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Thank you… was the first thing I thought of too

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago

In case you ever find yourself in this situation, you can also use the message SOS, its Morse code of three dots, three dashes, and three dots, or a triangle. For visibility during the day, build a smoky fire, and at night, three fires in an equilateral triangle.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 10 points 3 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Three teenagers have been rescued from a remote stretch of Western Australia's Mid West coast after a distress message written in the sand was spotted by two pilots flying overhead.

A pilot flying overhead spotted the message and notified authorities, with officers from Kalbarri Police and the Mid West-Gascoyne Traffic Unit deployed to the area.

In 2014, five people who were stranded on a rock off north Queensland after their boat broke anchor were rescued after emergency crews spotted their SOS message written on a sandbank.

Last month, a South Australian couple were forced to activate a personal locater beacon after becoming stranded for four nights on a remote bush track on the Nullarbor.

In April, a group of eight people were rescued by helicopter after spending three days stranded on a dirt track while travelling between Kalgoorlie-Boulder and the Aboriginal community of Tjuntjuntjara, about 650 kilometres north-east of the city.

They were the second party travelling to Tjuntjuntjara that had become stranded in the flood-ravaged region since record rainfall in March, when seven people, including children, spent four nights in bushland before being rescued by helicopter.

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[-] warm@kbin.earth 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'd probably have made it a lot bigger myself, but I'm glad it worked out for them!

[-] Pheonixdown@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I feel like it's one of those situations where you try to think of what would be a size that should be more than enough and then double it (or use the whole canvas if it isn't as big as that).

[-] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 3 months ago

There's a big canvas there, I'd certainly try to fill it, I have nothing better to do if I'm stranded anyway and bigger the better for this.

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