Swan Island

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Missing Victorian teens found alive on Swan Island (Sky News Australia)

Four teenagers that went missing on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula have been found alive on Swan Island. Two teenage boys and two teenage girls went ...

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Paddleboard teens missing from Rosebud found alive on other side ... (The Age)

Four teenagers who went missing while paddleboarding off Port Phillip Bay have been found alive by a walker on the opposite side of the bay after spending a ...

[Sign up here](/link/follow-20170101-p57ogt). Swan Island, off the coast of Queenscliff, is more than 20 kilometres from where the teenagers were sighted at Rosebud. “We were very much worried, they were not good swimmers, they can swim but do not have the skills to swim in the Bay,” he said. “It might be a beautiful day, but you’ve still got to keep a very firm eye on where you are in relation to the beach and what’s happening around you.” “The channel area is where we have main shipping from The Heads through to Melbourne, so it can get very deep and run very fast,” he told Nine before the teens were found. It was a “huge relief” the teens were found, but he told reporters they were not the strongest swimmers. The teens were “very cold and relieved to be on dry land” after drifting across the bay on two inflatable paddleboards, he said. He said the teens finished their VCE and were celebrating in the area. “To be actually able to present them with the news that they’ve been found safe and well, it was a really emotional, happy time,” he told ABC Radio. He said it was a “fantastic outcome” for their families, adding that the teenagers were “lucky”. The “cold and disorientated” teenagers were able to find shelter in a hut before security found them wandering the island when the sun came up, police said. “The four couldn’t fight against the easterly wind so floated with the tide and ended up on Swan Island – on the opposite side of the bay - around 2am,” they said in a statement.

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Fisherman says it's a 'miracle' paddle boarders made it to Swan Island (3AW)

The teens, aged 18 and 19, went missing from Rosebud on Monday night. Director of Gone Fishing Charters, Chris Vasilevski, says they could easily have been ...

“When we get those easterly winds and we have the ebb tide which I think was around 1am last night … “It’s a credit to the young fellas, they must have had their wits about them.” “It’s a long way to sort of drift along, obviously they wouldn’t have had much control with the easterly winds we’ve been having,” Mr Vasilevski told Tony Jones, filling in for Neil Mitchell.

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Four teens found alive on Swan Island (Mandurah Mail)

Four teenagers have been found alive after going missing in waters off Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. The 18-year-old woman,...

We were very desperate," he said. The group's belongings including phones and IDs were found on the beach by a passerby about 8pm on Monday, triggering the search. "We're very, very happy about that. Swan Island is a military training base on one side and the Queenscliff Golf Club is on the other. The group were found on a Swan Island beach, with island security and military personnel ultimately alerting police to their discovery. Two 18-year-old men and two women aged 18 and 19 were found across the bay on Swan Island off the Bellarine Peninsula about 9am on Tuesday.

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Four teens found alive on Swan Island after paddling out on ... (7NEWS.com.au)

All four teenagers have been located about 20km from the Victorian beach where they went missing.

The teenagers were using two inflatable paddleboards and vanished at some point during Monday. “(They’re) not good swimmers ... they do not have the skills to swim in the bay,” he said. Speaking to the media after the news his son had been found, Shi said he was “very happy” with the outcome. Earlier on Tuesday, the father of one of the boys said he was frustrated that the search was called off for about three hours on due to “deteriorating conditions”. The four teenagers who went missing after paddling out on inflatable boards in Victorian waters have been found alive by a local who was out on their morning walk.

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Four teens found alive on Swan Island (Port Macquarie News)

Four teenagers have been found alive after going missing in waters off Victoria's Mornington Peninsula. The 18-year-old woman,...

We were very desperate," he said. The group's belongings including phones and IDs were found on the beach by a passerby about 8pm on Monday, triggering the search. "We're very, very happy about that. Swan Island is a military training base on one side and the Queenscliff Golf Club is on the other. The group were found on a Swan Island beach, with island security and military personnel ultimately alerting police to their discovery. Two 18-year-old men and two women aged 18 and 19 were found across the bay on Swan Island off the Bellarine Peninsula about 9am on Tuesday.

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Four teens found alive on Swan island after going missing in Port ... (9News)

Four teenagers have been found alive on a beach 30km from where they went missing while paddle boarding in ...

Jack Shi, the father of one of the teens said he was "very happy" and "relieved". Acting Superintendent Terence Rowlands has said the teens were found "safe and well" by a local doing their regular morning beach walk in an "absolutely fantastic outcome". The two 18-year-old men, an 18-year-old woman and a 19-year-old woman floated to the opposite side of the bay to Swan Island about 2am, where they found shelter under a hunt.

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Four missing teenagers found alive on Swan Island after ... (ABC News)

Police and emergency services find four teenagers who disappeared while paddleboarding off Rosebud, on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, as their parents ...

"What might seem like a really safe place to go and have a swim or to be on a boat could be quite dangerous," he said. "It was the winds and the current and the tides at the time that have taken them over there." "Last night in Port Phillip Bay we had quite fresh winds from the east and that would have led to choppy conditions," Mr Ponsford said. "To be actually able to present them with the news that they've been found safe and well, it was a really emotional, happy time," he said. "Four people have entered Port Phillip Bay to have some fun and have ended up in what could have been tragic circumstances." The four teenagers were found on Swan Island, on the opposite side of Port Phillip Bay from where they were last seen.

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The Informer: Victorian teens feared dead found stranded on Swan ... (Whyalla News)

Two 18-year-old men and two women aged 18 and 19, all school graduates, have been found on Tuesday after an overnight search on the Mornington Peninsula.

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How four teens were found after going missing from a beach (Sky News Australia)

Victoria Police have told how the four teenagers who were found after going missing from a beach for more than 12 hours are "very relieved to be on dry ...

"They were actually found by a local on a beach across near Queenscliff. It was part of their routine walk," Act. 25+ news channels in 1 place. [Stream more on this story and all the latest news with Flash. Victoria Police have told how the four teenagers who were found after going missing from a beach for more than 12 hours are "very relieved to be on dry land". The family of one of the four teenagers found after going missing for more than 12 hours has spoken of their "huge relief" as police reveal how the youngsters were discovered.

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Teenagers rescued on Swan Island are 'heroes' for surviving the ... (ABC News)

The father of one of the teenagers who went missing on Monday night in the waters off Rosebud says he is "relieved" the group has been found alive and well.

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Four teenagers that went missing found alive on Swan Island (Sky News Australia)

Four teenagers who went missing in waters off the Victorian Coast last night have been found alive on Swan Island. Victoria Police say the outcome is ...

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Four teens who floated from Rosebud Beach to Swan Island on ... (Daily Mail)

How four terrified teens survived a freezing night at a top secret military base after being swept out to sea on their paddleboards: 'It's a miracle, I can't ...

If you look back, it's really, it's a miracle.' 'It still feels like a dream to me … When I closed my eyes, I felt like I couldn't feel my hands … if I closed my eyes I might not open them again,' Mr Shi said. In their effort to catch attention, two of the group fell in the water and were drenched and shivering on the boards. But no one did.

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How Rong and his friends survived a 'miracle' night on ... (ABC News)

Drifting on paddleboards in the dark of night as chilly winds whipped across Victoria's Port Phillip Bay, Rong Shi and his friends had "no time" to be ...

"[Then] we were getting really away from the beach … "We decided … if I closed my eyes I might not open them again." "It was too cold in the morning, we couldn't stay in the room so we just went out, trying to look for some help," Mr Shi said. "We were so excited," Mr Shi said. "There was a point where we were really tired", Mr Shi said.

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