Qld: Search for three missing off Heron Island continues

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: November 26, 2007 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
11-26-2007
Qld: Search for three missing off Heron Island continues

A search continues today for three people who've been missing for nearly two days ..

after failing to return from a water skiing trip to a reef off Queensland's Heron Island.

Queensland Police say they were notified around 7.30 (AEST) on Saturday night that
the two women .. aged 24 and 22 .. and 34-year-old man were overdue .. after leaving Heron
Island around 1.45 that afternoon.

It's believed they were going to an area behind Wistari Reef .. near Heron ...

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