Fed: Search resumes for kayaker = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-12-2007
Fed: Search resumes for kayaker = 2

Searcher Lloyd Matheson said the case of missing diver Robert Hewitt offered some hope
for searchers, but the conditions were more favourable in that case.

Mr Hewitt, a former Navy diver, was nearly given up for dead after going missing from
a dive trip off the Kapiti coast in February last year.

He was found after 75 hours at sea, not far from where he started.

"If you look at the Hewitt case, three days is a possibility. But you've got to be
fit, you've got have the right gear," Mr Matheson told Radio New Zealand.

Mr Matheson said Mr McAuley was getting near the end of his kayak across the Tasman
and fatigue could have been a factor.

"You're up against it really," he said.

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KEYWORD: NZ KAYAK 2ND D/L 2 SYDNEY (REOPENS)

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