{"id":145967,"date":"2025-09-10T07:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145967\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T07:04:09","slug":"search-underway-for-fisherman-overboard-in-waters-off-weipa-in-far-north-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/145967\/","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 on Wednesday.<\/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<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The search will continue overnight with several vessels remaining on the scene.<\/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":145968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,90474,1861,90472,90473,79,6826,90470,90471],"class_list":{"0":"post-145967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-fairway-buoy","10":"tag-fishing","11":"tag-maritime-safety-queensland","12":"tag-overboard","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-search","15":"tag-trawler","16":"tag-weipa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}