Life Saving Drone in Australia Saving Lives

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Australia has recently giving some of its lifeguards the ability to deploy and fly a drone to folks that might be in distress on some of its beaches. Two kids got caught up in some nasty swells and the lifeguard was able to fly the drone out to them and drop in some flotation devices. Very cool and everyone is still alive. The kids then swam back out to have the lifeguards do it again. (Not really.) These drones are also being used as shark spotters as well.


In what is believed to be a world-first drone surf rescue, two boys on Thursday got caught in three-metre (10-foot) swells while swimming off Lennox Head in New South Wales, near the border with Queensland. Beachgoers onshore raised the alarm to the lifeguards who then alerted the drone pilot, and the aerial lifesaver was deployed in moments. "I was able to launch it, fly it to the location, and drop the pod all in about one to two minutes," lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
 
This is pretty cool! Must be some heavy duty drones to be navigating precisely on the ocean?
 
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I'd rather have Alexandra Daddario rescue me :love:

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I like to read these types of articles pretending that I've stepped forwards in time from the 1800s.

Riley
 
Rahh said:
I read the article if that's what you're implying... They don't mention what drone is used nor how ocean winds affect it or their ability to navigate such strong winds to deliver flotation devices outside of maybe AI to do it.
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All the answers you are looking for are actually in the quote. Hence, reading is fundamental.
 
Interesting word "fundamental" Break it down "fund a mental". So we should find a crazy person and give them money? Wait,...shit,..I did that with my x-wife.
 
It's all well and good until one of them monster Australian spiders lassos a drone and melts its insides. Did you think of that!?!?!?
 
Read about this earlier today and saw the adjoining rescue video. Only showed downward camera view and not the drone itself. Though I suspect it is the 25 kilo 'little ripper' shown here:

 
Nice use for drones--think I still prefer Newfoundland dogs though. Or better a St. Bernard with a cask of brandy (well not in the ocean). (The lifeguard babe meme was already taken.)
 
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