{"id":33168,"date":"2022-11-28T07:18:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T12:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/?post_type=survivor-stories&p=33168"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:59:59","slug":"little-waterloo-bay-hikers-australia-resqlink","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/survivor-stories\/little-waterloo-bay-hikers-australia-resqlink\/","title":{"rendered":"ResQLink+ Activated After a Slip From a Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was out on a hiking trip on the southern circuit in Wilson’s Promontory. At Little Waterloo Bay<\/a>, I went to the beach and over some boulders to have a nice spot to eat. On my way back, I slipped on a wet boulder and broke my upper right arm (the x-ray later revealed that the humerus was shattered into multiple pieces); needing to set off my ResQLink PLB<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was behind a boulder where no one could see me and couldn’t safely get up. Calling for help didn’t get any response. I ended up scooting around the boulder until I could see a woman on the beach. She came over to help me back to my tent where my ResQLink PLB was. On the way there I briefly fainted from the pain, but luckily I was caught before falling down completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back at my tent, I was wrapped up in my blanket while the ResQLink PLB was set off. There was also a family and 2 friends from the person who helped me while waiting. One walked off to contact 000 and relay to them what happened. After 5 hours and discussions with the paramedics about me possibly walking an hour to meet the ambulance (which I would have been unable to do due to the pain), a helicopter came to collect me. I was immensely relieved at that point knowing that I was now in medical hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am very grateful for the women who helped me and the family who provided additional support until the paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She came over to help me back to my tent where my PLB was. On the way there I briefly fainted from the pain, but luckily I was caught before falling down completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127900,"featured_media":33167,"template":"","survivor-category":[17],"terrain":[20],"survivor-event":[136],"survivor-cause":[123],"survivor-rescue":[140,2639],"class_list":["post-33168","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-hiking","terrain-lake","survivor-event-normal-conditions","survivor-cause-medical-emergency","survivor-rescue-good-samaritan","survivor-rescue-paramedics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/33168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=33168"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=33168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}