Extra cellphone minutes help save Manitoba boaters

Release Date 23 Aug, 2011 in Vancouver Sun

 
   

Extra cellphone minutes help save Manitoba boaters

Vancouver Sun - Melissa Martin - 23 Aug, 2011
A few extra minutes â€" cellphone minutes, that is â€" may have saved the lives of four boaters rescued safe and sound in northern Manitoba during the weekend. WINNIPEG â€" A few extra minutes â€" cellphone ...

Manitoba RCMP find way to reach stranded boaters

CBC.ca - 23 Aug, 2011
Beginning of Story Content Four people forced to drift on Island Lake in northern Manitoba were rescued, wet and cold, over the weekend with a little help from the phone company, RCMP say. A woman from St. Theresa Point called the RCMP late Saturday ...

Four boaters rescued from Manitoba island

Globe and Mail - 23 Aug, 2011
A cellphone proved invaluable in the rescue of four adults stranded on an unknown island in northern Manitoba. Two men and two women called Island Lake RCMP around suppertime Saturday to say their boat had broken down and they were stuck on an island. ...

Stranded boaters found on island

CJOB - 23 Aug, 2011
Four stranded boaters - two men and two women, all in their twenties - were rescued by RCMP on an island in the middle of Island Lake Sunday evening. One of the boaters called RCMP on a cell phone to tell them their motor died shortly after leaving St. ...

RCMP locate stranded boaters

MetroNews Canada - 23 Aug, 2011
Four young adults from the Island Lake area of Manitoba who became stranded on an island after their boat broke down were rescued by RCMP after they requested minutes be added to the cell phone account that made the distress call. ...

Stranded Island Lake boaters rescued by helicopter 0

Winnipeg Sun - 23 Aug, 2011
St. Theresa Point band constables confirmed that the foursome had left Garden Hill around noon Saturday to travel to the northern shore of Stevenson Island. (Google Maps) Four people were stranded on Island Lake Saturday when the motor on their boat ...

RCMP rescue stranded boaters

mySteinbach.ca (blog) - 23 Aug, 2011
On August 20, 2011, shortly after 5pm, Island Lake RCMP received a cellular call from a 22-year-old woman from St. Theresa Point who advised the she, along with 3 other people, were stranded on an unknown island. RCMP learned that their boat broke down ...

Cell minutes save boaters

Winnipeg Free Press - Melissa Martin - 23 Aug, 2011
A few extra minutes â€" cell phone minutes, that is â€" may have saved the lives of four boaters rescued safe and sound in northern Manitoba. On Saturday afternoon, a 22-year-old woman from St. Theresa Point called Island Lake RCMP from a dying cell phone. ...

 

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