FALSE S.O.S. CALL
Searchers’ Time Wasted ty.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Oct. 10. Anyone making a false SOS call wasted the time of volunteer searchers, and endangered the lives of persons in genuine trouble, the Auckland co-ordinator of the Search and Rescue Organisation, Mr T. W. Keais-Smith, said today. An SOS radio call picked up by chance by officers of the Papatoetoe Volunteer Fire Brigade yesterday is now regarded as a hoax. The SOS was broadcast by a man who said he was in a boat that had been holed and was sinking fast, three miles south of Rangitoto. Several pleasure boats and launches, including the police launch, Deodar, raced to the position but found no sign of a boat, wreckage or oil. Captain F. Ladd, who flew over the area for 35 minutes, said today there was not the slightest sign of a boat having been in trouble. There were many small craft in the area at the time.
The call was broadcast early yesterday afternoon on a frequency normally used by radio-telephones.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 3
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173FALSE S.O.S. CALL Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31187, 11 October 1966, Page 3
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