Indian Ocean rescue: AMSA and Defence help rescue 20 Indonesian fishermen from sinking boat
Twenty Indonesian fishermen have been plucked from a sinking boat in a dramatic open ocean rescue hundreds of kilometres from the Western Australian coast. After days stuck at sea, a Japanese fishing boat finally made it to the vessel on Saturday, before Australian rescuers took over. Australian authorities said everyone on the Indonesian vessel was saved, but one man still needed urgent hospital care. READ MORE: An Indonesian fishing vessel in distress in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia.(AMSA) The Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which co-ordinated the rescue, hailed...