Member Greg Moulding responded to the late-night call. “We experience a variety of different situations in our role, no two rescues are ever the same. Safe to say that the recovery of a vessel that has been missing at sea for two years is one of the more unusual jobs I’ve responded to.
Victoria Police
The barnacle-covered saildrone was found on a Victoria beach recently. “When I got to the beach last night, I thought we’d stumbled across something extraordinary but little did I know we’d solved a longstanding mystery. “I spoke with its owner this afternoon who, due to the coronavirus pandemic, is unable to travel from the USA and organise retrieval. He was absolutely ecstatic that the vessel had been found and is hopeful that some of the data it has been collecting will be able to be retrieved.
Mysterious ghost boat washes up in Australia two years after leaving NZ
27 Apr, 2021 10:54 PM
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The drone was found washed up after its long journey. Photo / Victoria Police
NZ Herald
A futuristic vessel launched from New Zealand has finally washed up after it went off the grid two years ago, drifting across the world and navigating frozen oceans after its research mission went awry.
Police in the Australian state of Victoria reported their mysterious visitor in a Facebook post, revealing that those that found the craft were stunned as mullets by the discovery.
The Saildrone was launched from Bluff in January 2019 on a mission to research the krill population around Antarctica.
International mystery solved as seven-metre drone washes up in Victoria
A long-standing mystery has been solved after a seven-metre drone lost at sea for two years between Antarctica and South America has washed up on a Victorian beach.
Waratah Marine Search and Rescue (MSAR) members were called out on Monday after an Unidentified Floating Object appeared on the sand at the Waratah Bay Surf Beach. After checking for any extra-terrestrials, MSAR have since been able to confirm that the vessel is in fact a research sail drone, Life Saving Victoria said in a statement.
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A mystery unidentified floating object washed up on a Victorian beach much to the surprise of the Waratah Bay Surf beach.(Surf Lifesaving Victoria)
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