Webcam Helped Rescue Man From Sea
Man on cam gets saved by distant woman.
Modern technology can help save lives, an example shown once again by the story of a tourist who was saved on a frozen sea in northern Germany.
A tourist had become lost on the ice after photographing the sunset off St Peter-Ording. "He got lost on the ice and could not find the coast again because it was covered in snow," police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow told reporters, according to the AFP.
Being left to his own devices, the man used a pocket flashlight to send signals of his presence on the vast frozen surface. Luckily, a woman located hundreds of kilometers away spotted the camera flashes as she too was watching the sunset remotely via the tourism board's webcam.
The woman alerted the police to what she saw, which led to the man's rescue.
"He escaped without injury but could well have died from cold or been injured on the ice or drowned when the tide came in," Stielow said.
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Wow that is cool, he might think twice before getting into a situation like that again.
"the man used a pocket flashlight to send signals of his presence on the vast frozen surface. Luckily, a woman located hundreds of kilometers away spotted the camera flashes "
soooo.... did he use pocket flashlight or camera flashed light?????
Wait, he didn't use his iPhone 3GS? Why use a webcam instead? Steve told all of us that the iPhone is more awesome...I don't understand.
Maybe next time he'll remember his GPS.
Maybe next time he'll remember his GPS.
Maybe next time he'll remember to not be an idiot and use the sun's position to calculate which direction he must walk in.
This guy was a moron for getting lost.
Wow, I think I would have been better to read only the name of the story. The body made no sense at all. I'm even more confused as to how a man's webcam saved his life.
It wasnt his webcam. It was the tourist boards webcam. The woman spotted him on it.
LOL I admit it could have been written better, but he did not use the webcam, if you read carefully, she was on her computer logged in to one of those webcams that you can access from the internet and she saw the video feed of the flashlight signals, so he was using old signaling technology with a flashlight and she spotted him while using the new technology LOL
And let's not forget to thank Al Gore, inventor of the internet.
Ignoring stupidity, it was still an interesting event.
What a stupid article, badly written and miss leading... someone was looking over him though...
What a stupid article, badly written and miss leading... someone was looking over him though...
Coming from someone who spelt misleading incorrectly?
ManBearPig
Wow, who knew there could be positive situations to having millions of webcams watching your every moves all over the world...
I find it amazing, because i read this story, and he was 550km away!
What's a tourist doing in a dangerous place ALONE without a GUIDE?
Still, nice save. Hope he learns his lesson.
St Peter Ording: Come for the Entspannungssuchende, stay for the Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung!
(those are real words btw... gotta love that German efficiency!)
Why don't they just edit the article to something like
"a woman located hundreds of kilometers away spotted the flash light signals as she too was watching the sunset remotely via the tourism board's webcam"
"Being left to his own devices, the man used a pocket flashlight to send signals of his presence on the vast frozen surface. Luckily, a woman located hundreds of kilometers away spotted the camera flashes as she too was watching the sunset remotely via the tourism board's webcam."
That must be one powerful camera that some can see it hundreds of kilometers away through a webcam.
Big sister is watching you...
Marcus Marcus Marcus. First it was the spelling errors and now it's the inconsistency of the story. Whats going on man? Are you going to tell us next that up is down and down is up?