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Seafarer Found Clinging to a Buoy in Melbourne's Harbor

On Sunday, police responders in Melbourne, Australia rescued a seafarer who had jumped over the side of his vessel and was found hanging onto a navigational buoy a few miles off the port.


The survivor, a 31-year-old Georgian national, was spotted by a Victoria Police search aircraft at about 2000 hours on Sunday night. He was rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment, then placed in COVID-19 quarantine. Officers who came into contact with him will also enter quarantine as a precautionary measure.





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