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Four men have been rescued from the ocean after a freak wave capsized their boat, leaving them stranded and desperately clinging to its hull. The boaties were attempting to cross the Wide Bay bar when their vessel was overturned north of the Sunshine Coast on Saturday morning. The Tin Can Bay Coast Guard were alerted to the rescue by water police and arrived to find the men clinging to the hull of the six metre boat. The Queensland boaties were hit by a freak wave while attempting to cross the Wide Bay Bar, north of the Sunshine Coast on Saturday
Premium Content Subscriber only Four men are very lucky to be alive after their boat capsized north of the Sunshine Coast on Saturday morning. The group were found clinging to the overturned vessel by the Coast Guard after they were alerted to the rescue by the water police. It's understood the men were attempting to cross the Wide Bay bar when they were hit by a freak wave and their boat overturned. Four men found clinging to the hull of a 6.1m boat have been rescued by the Tin Can Bay Coast Guard crew. The men activated their EPIRB to alert emergency services to their predicament.
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The interactive map of the Cooloola Coast shows the location of all the derelict vessels in the region. Another four derelicts vessels in the inlet have yet to be removed, and six more have been identifed as possible risks. Boaties are glad to see the back of them, but it comes at a cost. Noosa Commercial Boatman's Association spokesman Craig McGovern welcomed Maritime Safety Queensland's four-year, $20 million War on Wrecks program. He told News Corp, "abandoned, unsightly and unsafe houseboats have been a bone of contention... for decades". "They're a danger and they're polluting the river and they end up getting vandalised and the tinny rats get on them and make it worse," Mr McGovern said.