{"id":75408,"date":"2018-01-18T21:23:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/drone-comes-to-the-rescue-of-two-swimmers-in-australia"},"modified":"2018-01-18T21:23:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:23:10","slug":"drone-comes-to-the-rescue-of-two-swimmers-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/drone-comes-to-the-rescue-of-two-swimmers-in-australia","title":{"rendered":"Drone comes to the rescue of two swimmers in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/drone-comes-to-the-rescue-of-two-swimmers-in-australia.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day, they may yet turn against us, but for now, they\u2019re still our allies: A drone rescued two teenage swimmers in distress off the coast of New South Wales in Australia, according to a new report. The drone spotted two teenagers in trouble around a half-a-mile out from shore, and then dropped a flotation device it carries for the purpose to give them something to hang on to (via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/1\/18\/16904802\/drone-rescue-australia-video-ocean\" rel=\"noopener\">Verge<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>This drone was actually not supposed to be saving anyone just yet \u2013 it was engaged in a pilot project to test its viability. But the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/world-first-a-drone-has-been-used-to-rescue-two-swimmers-struggling-in-heavy-surf-20180118-h0kg9m.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn%3Atwi-13omn1677-edtrl-other%3Annn-17%2F02%2F2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o%26sa%3DD%26usg%3DALhdy28zsr6qiq\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney Morning Herald<\/a> reports that when a call came through about the swimmers in trouble, the drone happened to be in the Ari and nearby, positioned well to respond.<\/p>\n<p>The drone\u2019s pilot, a decorated veteran lifeguard for New South Wales, was able to Gert out to the swimmers\u2019 position, and drop the pod in a minute or two, which is at least a few minutes less than it would\u2019ve taken to respond directly with actual flesh and blood lifeguards.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/01\/18\/drone-comes-to-the-rescue-of-two-swimmers-in-australia\/\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/01\/18\/drone-comes-to-the-rescue-...australia\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, they may yet turn against us, but for now, they\u2019re still our allies: A drone rescued two teenage swimmers in distress off the coast of New South Wales in Australia, according to a new report. The drone spotted two teenagers in trouble around a half-a-mile out from shore, and then dropped a flotation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}