{"id":132181,"date":"2025-09-10T06:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132181\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:53:10","slug":"search-underway-for-fisherman-overboard-in-waters-off-weipa-in-far-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/132181\/","title":{"rendered":"Search underway for fisherman overboard in waters off Weipa in Far North Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A jet from interstate has been sent to help a major air and sea search for a man who went overboard off Queensland&#8217;s western cape early this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Australian Maritime Safety Bureau said a mayday call was broadcast from a fishing boat in the Gulf of Carpentaria about 4.20am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The ABC understands the search is focused about 30 nautical miles south-west of Weipa, which is about 635 kilometres north-west of Cairns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The RSCU330 jet from Essendon in Victoria was sent to join the Cairns-based Challenger jet in the search, as well as two far north Queensland rescue helicopters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AMSA says nearby boats, including fishing boats, are helping, along with Weipa&#8217;s Volunteer Marine Rescue catamaran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;AMSA will proceed with investigations on this matter once the search and rescue efforts conclude,&#8221; a spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A jet from interstate has been sent to help a major air and sea search for a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,91611,6349,91609,91610,128,7452,91607,91608],"class_list":{"0":"post-132181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-fairway-buoy","12":"tag-fishing","13":"tag-maritime-safety-queensland","14":"tag-overboard","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-search","17":"tag-trawler","18":"tag-weipa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}