{"id":590325,"date":"2026-04-07T02:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590325\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:08:08","slug":"cyclist-rescued-by-victoria-police-air-wing-after-trying-to-ride-across-the-snowy-river-at-suggan-buggan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/590325\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist rescued by Victoria Police Air Wing, after trying to ride across the Snowy River at Suggan Buggan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A cyclist who tried to ride across the Snowy River at Suggan Buggan in remote far-east Gippsland has been plucked to safety in a dramatic overnight rescue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Victoria Police helicopter was called in to save the 31-year-old cyclist who was stranded in the river for four hours, clinging to reeds to stay afloat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">They got into strife while trying to ride across the river, just before 8pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Police said the well-equipped cyclist activated a satellite communication device, which alerted the Rescue and Coordination Centre (RCC) providing location coordinates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Officers from the Victoria Police Air Wing spotted a fellow cyclist on the riverbank before a rescuer was winched down to pluck the cyclist from the water, just after midnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The cyclist was taken to hospital for assessment but was uninjured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist who tried to ride across the Snowy River at Suggan Buggan in remote far-east Gippsland has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,784,44,288357,42272,288356,288358],"class_list":{"0":"post-590325","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-cycling","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-orbost","13":"tag-snowy-river","14":"tag-suggan-buggan","15":"tag-victoria-police-air-wing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590325","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=590325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}