ARE YOU REALLY WELL-PREPARED?

RON MOON

GOING by recent news reports about a couple who had their vehicle catch fire along the Talawana Track (WA) and were rescued by a chopper, the subsequent police comments were that they were ‘well-prepared’ because they had a sat phone. The police sergeant was actually quoted on Channel 7 News as saying: “This is a really good story of people well-prepared.” I’m not sure having a sat phone, especially if that is all you have, is enough to warrant being called well-prepared! Yep, the sat phone got them out of trouble and possibly even saved their lives, or at least a few more nights unplanned out in the desert – but is a sat phone really enough? Interestingly, going by pics from the news report, the couple had enough time to grab…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2022

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