Tasmanian man found after three days in wilderness
After three days missing in the wilderness a 26-year-old Tasmanian man has been found dehydrated and hungry but mostly well. Jack Lockley wandered into dense bushland after his car became bogged prompting an extensive search by land and air.
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00:00 "We've confirmed that they have found Jack."
00:05 A radio call back to base, the beginning of a fateful rescue.
00:10 Jack Lockley, now in safe hands, escaping with only minor injuries.
00:15 "He is very, very, very lucky.
00:17 We've had good weather in the area, which has helped,
00:21 and we have had really good search teams out there looking for him."
00:26 Mr Lockley was camping near the Fortescue Bay area late Saturday night
00:30 when his car became bogged.
00:32 He spent two long nights in dense scrub by himself.
00:35 "His phone ran flat and all the circumstances led to him leaving his car
00:42 and then being lost in the bush for a couple of days."
00:45 His disappearance sparked a large-scale search,
00:48 with over 60 SES and search personnel scouring the area.
00:52 Search teams found his abandoned ute yesterday afternoon,
00:55 not far from the unsealed road to Fortescue Bay.
00:58 "Sometimes people think that they can walk out in the dark,
01:04 find their way out to another location,
01:08 but it is an old forestry area and those tracks can lead to nothing."
01:12 Even though Mr Lockley was only a few hundred metres away from his car
01:16 when he got lost, rescue teams had to navigate dense bushland to reach him.
01:21 It took several hours to rescue Mr Lockley,
01:23 with SES teams resorting to using a chainsaw to cut a path through the bush.
01:28 Police have dished out some wisdom for anyone else going bush.
01:32 "Stay with your vehicle because it's quite easy to find vehicles, which we did,
01:38 but it's a lot harder to find people under tree canopies."
01:42 Dehydrated and sunburnt, but lucky to be alive.
01:45 lives.
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