{"id":556467,"date":"2026-03-22T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556467\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T06:34:10","slug":"three-sailors-including-child-rescued-after-floating-in-ocean-for-16-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/556467\/","title":{"rendered":"Three sailors including child rescued after &#8216;floating in ocean&#8217; for 16 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three people, including a child, survived floating in the ocean for 16 hours in the ocean off Tasmania after their \ufeffboat sank last night.<\/p>\n<p>But one man remains missing, with police boats and helicopters still searching the waters near Robbins Island.<\/p>\n<p>The four people \ufeffare thought to have been staying at Montagu campground in the state&#8217;s north-west when they set off for a fishing trip at around 5.30pm last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/79cfb392-e918-400c-8c1c-1d69fc501a95.jpeg\"   alt=\"Tasmania Police confirmed the Westpac Rescue Helicopter is involved in the search for the missing boat.\"\/>Tasmania Police confirmed the Westpac Rescue Helicopter is involved in the search for the missing boat. (Sitthixay Ditthavong)<\/p>\n<p>They failed to return\ufeff, with concerned relatives raising the alarm with police at about 8am this morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Westpac Rescue Helicopter was dispatched and about 1pm, two adults and a child were found floating in the water at Robbins passage.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffPolice believe the boat they were in broke up at about 9pm last night, with all four to be thrown into the water.<\/p>\n<p>They were not rescued for around 16 hours.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken to North West Regional Hospital due to the amount of time they spent in the water, but police say they are otherwise uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The trio were wearing life jackets.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Tasmania Police said in a statement several boats, as well as the Westpac Rescue Helicopter, were deployed in the search.<\/p>\n<p>NEVER MISS A STORY: Get your breaking news and exclusive stories first by following us across all platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people, including a child, survived floating in the ocean for 16 hours in the ocean off Tasmania&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-556467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556467","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=556467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}