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Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main Darwin

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Speaker 1: home Z owned Stuart Highway, Berimo.

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Speaker 2: Well, as you'd imagine, busy weekend on the water and unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: by the look of things, police actually had to will

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Speaker 2: help a few people in terms of getting home. Now,

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Speaker 2: joining us on the line, Anti Water Police officer in charge,

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Speaker 2: Senior Sergeant Sandy Melon, Good morning to you, Sandy, Good morning,

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Speaker 2: How are you not too bad? Sounds like it was

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Speaker 2: a busy weekend for our water police.

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Speaker 1: It was a busy weekend. We had three vessels that

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Speaker 1: required the water police assistance over the weekend. And how many.

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Speaker 2: People were on all of those vessels.

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Speaker 1: Sandy, So it was a total of eleven people all up.

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Speaker 2: Wow? And was everybody sort of safe for talk us

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Speaker 2: through those three different rescues or toe backs?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I think everybody was safe. Nobody was in peril. However,

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Speaker 1: they did need our assistance. They all had some mechanical

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Speaker 1: failure of some sort. We had one on Saturday, one

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Speaker 1: on Sunday and one on Monday. So the Saturday one

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Speaker 1: had a fuel filter issue and was towed back to

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Speaker 1: Dina Beach which took us about two hours. And there

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Speaker 1: were three people on board there. On Sunday at about

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Speaker 1: the same time, we had another vessel that had mechanical

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Speaker 1: failure which was towed back to the ski club, six

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Speaker 1: people there. And on Monday we had another seven meter vessel,

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Speaker 1: again with mechanical faults from Fenton Patches with two people

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Speaker 1: on and was towed back to Elizabeth River Boat Lamp.

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Speaker 2: Goodness may in all of these situations, were they all

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Speaker 2: pretty quick to get in contact with emergency services?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think they were all required our assistance. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have anybody else that could help them. Normally we

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Speaker 1: would rely on Safe Life Save and volunteer Marine Rescue

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Speaker 1: or the Coast guarde volunteers, really important services for people

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Speaker 1: who need help, but long weekend they weren't available, so

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Speaker 1: it was left up to us to make sure we've

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Speaker 1: got everybody back safely.

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Speaker 2: Is it a bit of a strain on our police resources? Certainly?

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Speaker 2: You know, for you guys the water police team having

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Speaker 2: to go out and help people when they're having mechanical failures,

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Speaker 2: you know, yes, it.

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Speaker 1: Does take away from resources. However, that's what we're here for.

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Speaker 1: We're here to there and protect, so we were happy

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Speaker 1: to do it. We would take this as a time.

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Speaker 1: They reminder, though, that it's best practice to ensure that

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Speaker 1: your boat motor is checked regularly, and the general rule

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Speaker 1: is for it to be serviced about every hundred hours.

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Speaker 1: But that's not to say that these things wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: happened anyway. It's just it's best practice to make sure

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Speaker 1: that you regularly service your motor.

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Speaker 2: And Sandy, we're all of those passengers on board each

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Speaker 2: of those each of those vessels. I'm assuming that they're

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Speaker 2: all very thankful for the police assistance.

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Speaker 1: I think they would be very happy to have seen

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Speaker 1: us and been towed safely back. Nobody wants to sit

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Speaker 1: out in a boat for hours and hours unless you're

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Speaker 1: on the fish, of course.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. The last thing you want.

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Speaker 1: Is to be stuck at me. You don't mind it, then.

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Speaker 2: When you know you can get yourself home safely, that's

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Speaker 2: that's exactly right. Well, it sounds like it was a

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Speaker 2: very busy weekend for you guys. I mean, is that

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Speaker 2: sort of out out of the ordinary for you to

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Speaker 2: have to, you know, to help so many vessels in

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Speaker 2: one weekend.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very busy. Like I said, we normally

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Speaker 1: rely on those volunteer services which are so important and essential,

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Speaker 1: but being the long weekend, they weren't available. And like

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Speaker 1: I said, we're happy to we're happy to step in,

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Speaker 1: but we would prefer it if people are able to

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Speaker 1: get themselves home safely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, and a timely reminder, like you said, to

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Speaker 2: make sure that your boats are fine to head out

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Speaker 2: there and that you do get them regularly serviced.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Oh Sandy, lovely to speak to you this morning. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for your time, and let's hope that

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Speaker 2: everybody will stay safe on the water.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and get onto some fish.

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Speaker 2: That's right, good on you, Sandy, Thank you, Katie bye.

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Speaker 2: That is Senior Sergeant Sandy Mellon there. She is, indeed

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Speaker 2: the officer in charge of the Northern Territory Water Police

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Speaker 2: and a great woman.