WRONG BOAT “RESCUED”
Youths Saved By Surfers
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Dec. 16. Two youths, Barry Jordan and David Dakers, whose yacht capsized 500 yards off shore today, were rescued by members of the Red Beach Surf Club. When they received the call for help members of the surf club team were more than a mile from where the yacht capsized. After running along the beach they sighted a yacht with a broken mast about 80 yards off-shore. Four of the team swam to it—only to be told they had the wrong boat. The one they swam out to was attempting to go to the rescue of the capsized vessel when the mast snapped. Returning to the shore the surf club members ran a further quarter of a mile along the beach and again plunged into the surf. About 500 yards out they reached the capsized yacht and found the two youths clinging to it.
Dakers, who did not have a life jacket, was exhausted and suffering from exposure. He was taken in on a surf ski. Jordan was taken back to shore by a small runabout which had joined in the rescue.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 30007, 17 December 1962, Page 14
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