Breaking: Australians missing off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province while on a surfing trip have been found alive.
The father of one of the Australians who went missing off the coast of Indonesia says he has received a text message from his son telling him, “I’m alive”.The four Australians are Steph Weisse, Jordan Short, Elliot Foote and Will Teagle.“It [the text] says, ‘Hey Dad, Elliot here. I’m alive. Safe now. Love you. Chat later.’ He’s probably going out for a surf this afternoon, you know. Who knows?”
“They’ve found three of them ... all bobbing around, but my son got on a surfboard and paddled to an island for help,” Foote told this masthead earlier.Two of the three Indonesians who were on board – the boat owner and two mechanics – were also found. The Indonesian search and rescue authority, called Basarnas, has dispatched a Susi Air plane to Tengku Island to check on the reports that the Australians had been found alive.
A team of 20 local rescuers, police and the military spent Monday looking for the missing boat and were joined by a number of Australian-operated vessels in the search.
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