Article 5XSM6 ‘A beacon’: Victoria police praise teenager who used watch to signal helicopter during kayak rescue

‘A beacon’: Victoria police praise teenager who used watch to signal helicopter during kayak rescue

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Donna Lu
from World news | The Guardian on (#5XSM6)

The 13-year-old boy and a 51-year-old woman were rescued from the Glenelg River near South Australia border in early hours of Sunday

Two kayakers missing in Victoria's south-west were located after a resourceful 13-year-old used his watch to signal a police helicopter.

The kayakers - a teenage boy and a 51-year-old Mount Gambier woman - failed to return to their rendezvous point near the Keegans Bend Track at Drik Drik about 8pm on Saturday.

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