Missing prospectors

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Two prospectors missing on channel 9 news
No more imfo.

I know I'm wrong to post this but most folk in this game have spent a lifetime paying taxes and never asked for assistance, but go to sea from any nation and you can only guess at the resources from our coffers that are thrown out to show International goodwill. What price is a life. Again, I apologise for my shallowness.

you have a point mingo why is it that the land based search parties in the goldfields are not so well equipped or have the resources needed. gees i even heard the cops didnt have a GPS and had to borrow one. WT???

I guess its not really a results based exercise from the government's perspective, just as long as someone is seen to be doing something that's ok, these people out searching should not be there if they are not well enough equipped if that really is the case, and if the cops don't have a gps then there's a fair chance that they are not experienced in the use of one anyway, and if they are country based cops then they should be, and should have access to them, I would have thought that this would be the case.

In light of the amount of people who have gone missing over the last couple of years and I believe its about 24 or so, with about 6 as yet unfound, you can guarantee that at some point carrying of Epirbs will be mandatory and involve licencing etc., someone will work out the dollar value to the government in the exercise and the will make it law, but people will still go bush without safety gear and still get lost.

If the government were to implement laws on epirbs then perhaps they should introduce a scheme like with the satellite phones and give a rebate to people who can prove that they spend time in the bush, get the price of the units down and more people will probably carry them, at the end of the day there's no point passing laws and making it so if nobody is going to be able to police it

At the end of the day the epirb has to be able to be carried on your person, no point having one attached to the bike/quad/4wd if you have wandered away from it and gotten lost its of little use to you.

au-fever

Well said Martin. Like you, we carry same plus matches and Joan carries a whistle. Can never be too careful. We hope they are found safe. Bob

Hi

Some members may find this link useful.

http://www.police.wa.gov.au/Portals/11/PDFs/AidsToSurival_2007.pdf

Remember, if you fall down an old shaft an PLB won't help you.

Regards

Updated 19 hours ago;
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/search-area-widened-for-prospecting-couple-jennie-and-raymond-kehlet-missing-in-wa-outback/story-fnhocxo3-1227294345998

And skeletal remains seem to be found, not the missing ones.
So hopefully a good end.
remains found

RIP for the person in the mineshaft

Yes remains have been found. Now they have to identify who it is.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-08/search-for-missing-wa-prospectors-reveals-unrelated-human-remai/6379020?section=wa

kaethe wrote:And skeletal remains seem to be found, not the missing ones.
So hopefully a good end.
remains found

RIP for the person in the mineshaft

It was only a matter of time before they found somebody's
Remains after checking all those shafts.

Any more recent local news on the search over there, not gettin nothin over this side.

Pete

Nothing here lately. there was talk the search would be called off but don't know if they did.

kaethe wrote:And skeletal remains seem to be found, not the missing ones.
So hopefully a good end.
remains found

RIP for the person in the mineshaft

Was watching the show "Kalgoorlie Cops" a month or so back, a woman of the night mentioned about how "Tourists" go missing more than the locals and that their are a lot of mine shafts in W.A, so it seem to be common knowledge for W.A people???
Anybody else see the episode I'm talking about?

G'day Chris, welcome to the forum mate.

Naa, i gave up on that Kal cops show 10 minutes into the first episode, shows made for tourists, Kal aint nothin like that, it's worse (Joking)

Cheers
Pete

Every single Kal Local can tell you how to get rid of a body.
("A lot of mine shafts (take your arm in any direction, do a 360 degree turn) out there period.....")

Sounds like search has been called off,but are the human remains related or not,they haven't been clear on that.

offthegrid wrote:Sounds like search has been called off,but are the human remains related or not,they haven't been clear on that.

If they are missing for 2-3 weeks only the body wouldn't be in such a decomposed state that only skeletal remains were left.

The skeleton will be old. Where the couple are is anyones guess but I'm sure one day they will be found.

Police have just confirmed the body found down the shaft is Raymond, jennie hasn't been found, so sad.

I can not understand how he turned to bones so quickly, specially down a shaft. Just gets odder and odder
Cheers
Russo

yeah something ain't right with this one,

Strange

walking at night maybe. if you fall down a shaft at night, ya buggered.
but it's still a mystery, where's the wife ?

hate to say it but i'm thinking this mob my have grabbed a lift with someone not quite right in the head, maybe to a patch just down the road.
if they recover the missus bod they may get some answers. down the shaft at night is a long shot , but possible i guess

Evil bastard,someone else has to be involved,he's been dumped down the mine shaft if he was detecting at night where is his detector not down the hole or around it.Shes been taken to god knows where hate to think what has happend to her.

Hi All,

Evidently they are both flyin-flyout workers, so should be well off and have no reason to do a flyer, who knows what's happened

Ron