Malibu rescuers are no longer in business: in Australia, a drone saved drowning people for the first time

The drone is coming to the rescue! In Australia, a drone helped rescue two teenagers who were swept into the open ocean. This is the world's first case of rescuing drowning people using a quadrocopter.

Rescuers at Lennox Head Beach in New South Wales were preparing to conduct tests as part of a program to reduce the number of shark attacks when they received a signal about drowning surfers - 16—year-old Monty Greenslade and 17-year-old Gabe Widler.

The teenagers swam 700 meters from the shore and struggled to cope with the waves, which at that moment reached three meters in height. Then rescuers attached a special means to rescue drowning people to the drone and sent it to the drowning.

A recording made from an Australian drone that dropped a special capsule to minors was published on YouTube. It was filled with air and helped the drowning people to stay on the water and get to the shore. The rescue operation took only one or two minutes.

This is how the rescue of drowning people with the help of a multicopter takes place. These shots were taken during a training operation in Germany.

Such a drone, on which two rescue pillows are attached, is designed for the prompt rescue of drowning people. And it is necessary to act quickly in emergency situations, because an adult can drown in a matter of minutes, and a child in a few tens of seconds.

New South Wales has purchased drones to detect sharks and rescue drowning people.

The government of this Australian state has invested 430 thousand Australian dollars (19.3 million rubles) in the development of rescue drones. All of them are designed for different purposes: there are drones for detecting sharks, for rescuing drowning people, there are equipped with loudspeakers and flashing lights. Their trials will end in April. After that, a decision will be made on the use of drones throughout the state.