New South Wales ’ $ 340,000 investment in drones has apparently pay off in a major way . On Thursday , two teenage boys in Australia struggling offshore were saved thanks to a rescue drone , theBBC reported .
Ben Franklin , Parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW , told the Sydney Morning Heraldthat “ it only take 70 seconds ” for the drone — the Little Ripper UAV — to make its agency to the boys and then leave out the inflatable pod to rescue them . The drone , deploy by lifeguard executive program Jai Sheridan , caught the whole matter on camera .
“ On a normal daytime that would have taken our lifeguards a few minutes longer to reach the members of the populace , ” Sheridan tell apart the Sydney Morning Herald .
The government ’s investiture in a fleet of laggard is part of its almost $ 13 million Shark Management Strategy program which wasannounced in 2015 . Trials of radio-controlled aircraft as a means of aery surveillance and real - time views of the coast are being held in a number of locations , include Lennox Head , where the two boys were reportedly rescued .
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