Epic swim after boat goes down
NZPA Bumie, Tasmania A man swam for five hours and a half and spent two nights on a remote Bass Strait island before rescue after a boating accident. His two companions were still missing. One is a New Zealander. Alan Bruce Sullivan, aged 29, of Smithton, Tasmania, was rescued on Sandy Petrel Island between Walkers Island and Three Hummock Island early yesterday.
The search-and-rescue coordinator for Tasmania’s north-west coast, Inspector Tom Lello, said Mr Sullivan had been found by a Tasmanian Fisheries patrol boat.
His companions. Christopher John Moore, aged 24, of Smithon, and the New Zealander, Francis Huataki Kapene, aged 31, were still missing last evening.
They were last seen by Mr Sullivan near the 6m glassfibre motor boat after it was swamped and sank between Smithton and Three Hummock Island. Mr Kapene was last seen clinging to a petrol tank later found floating in a bay at Three Hummock Island.
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Press, 22 December 1978, Page 4
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