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Please, we need leniency in exceptional cases
I support the decision to lockdown for a week. However, there should be a process for exceptional cases. My husband, who has dementia, suffered a serious fall last Saturday. He is in St Vincent’s with a brace which must stay on for three months. Until yesterday, I could visit him from 12pm each day, walking the two kilometres each way as part of my daily routine.
The Waratah Bay Marine Rescue (MSAR) team has been involved in many rescue and recovery missions, but nothing quite like this. Waratah MSAR member Greg
4 May 2021
A longstanding “mystery” has finally been solved after a wind and solar-powered research drone washed up on a beach last week in Victoria after contact was lost 18 month ago and the drone was left floating across the Southern Ocean.
The Waratah Bay Marine Rescue (MSAR) members were called out last Monday to the Waratah Bay Surf Beach after, as Life Saving Victoria described it, an “Unidentified Floating Object” was discovered washed ashore.
After searching “for any signs of extra terrestrial life” the MSAR members eventually discovered that the owner of the craft was the California-based developer, Saildrone.
According to the Victoria Police, which was part of the effort to identify the mysterious floating drone, Saildrone launched three of its floating research drones back in 2019 from Bluff in New Zealand.
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.
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The drone was found washed up after its long journey. Photo / Victoria Police
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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.