The discovery of a man’s body has ended an extensive search and rescue effort in outback Queensland. Emergency services were notified a 25-year-old Adelaide man was missing near Woomanooka Road in Durham after his car became bogged on Sunday morning. The man and the 39-year-old Brisbane woman he was travellingContinue Reading
An urgent rescue effort has entered its third day, after two teenagers fell into the water at the site of a popular blowhole in Victoria and one was swept out to sea. Lauchlon Humphries, 14, and his 15-year-old friend were on the rocks at Cape Bridgewater, about 370 kilometres westContinue Reading
There are nine people trapped on the roof of a hospital and five people needing rescue from their roof in Queensland as dangerous flooding tears through Far-North Queensland. Freshly-appointed Queensland Premier Steven Miles said he is “most concerned” about the nine people who have spent the night on the roofContinue Reading
Off-duty lifesavers have saved the lives of eight young people trapped in a strong rip at Austinmer Beach on the NSW south coast. Members of the Austinmer Surf Life Saving Club raced into the water after noticing swimmers struggling in the surf just after 7pm on Monday. Grabbing rescue boardsContinue Reading
A man’s cries for help likely saved his life after he fell from a rooftop and became stuck in the cavity between two Perth buildings. Emergency services were called to Murray Street mall about 6.30am on Sunday after a pedestrian located the man trapped between two buildings. The witness heardContinue Reading
A $40 million superyacht owned by Australian billionaire and mining magnate Clive Palmer has become stuck off the coast of Singapore. The yacht is believed to have run aground in shallow waters one kilometre off the exclusive Sentosa Island on Monday afternoon. Palmer purchased the 56-metre Benetti – which heContinue Reading
Wildlife authorities have launched an emergency response to try to save dozens of whales that have stranded themselves on an Australian beach. A large pod of pilot whales has been washing ashore on Tuesday afternoon at Western Australia’s Cheynes beach, 60km east of Albany. Video of the whales washed upContinue Reading
The family of a crew member who died on the missing Titanic sub have blasted the delay in a rescue mission being launched. Authorities weren’t alerted to Titan’s disappearance until eight hours after it vanished on Sunday – and high-tech underwater robots only hit the seabed today after the vessel’sContinue Reading
A photo of OceanGate’s submersible, Titan, before its descent to the Titanic wreck on Sunday has become the last known image of the craft still intact. Dirty Dozen Productions captured the picture of the sub on a platform before it went underwater. While there was hope the vessel in theContinue Reading
A massive search and rescue effort for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic is at a critical stage, with just hours left before the oxygen supply for the five people on board runs out. As the search continues, it’s been revealed that the craft was designed toContinue Reading