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AP-APTN-0930: Australia Rescue Friday, 6 January 2012 STORY:Australia Rescue- REPLAY Ice box saves stricken crew LENGTH: 02:19 FIRST RUN: 0430 RESTRICTIONS: No Access Australia TYPE: English/Nats SOURCE: AuBC/Channel 7 STORY NUMBER: 722048 DATELINE: Sydney - 5 Jan 2012 LENGTH: 02:19 CHANNEL 7 - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA AUBC - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA SHOTLIST: CHANNEL 7 - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA 1. Wide aerial of group floating in water 2. Wide aerial of life raft inflating 3. Wide aerial of life raft approaching police boat 4. Wide aerial of rescue helicopter and boats 5. Aerial of boy being lifted onto police boat 6. Aerial of rescued group on police boat 7. Wide aerial of group getting off police boat onto pontoon 8. Wide aerial of emergency vehicle on dockside AUBC - NO ACCESS AUSTRALIA 9. Mid of member of group Rick Matthews being put on stretcher 10. Wide of Sydney skyline and dockside 11. Matthews being wheeled on stretcher 12. Member of rescued group Scott Smiles walking with his son 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Detective Superintendent Mark Hutchings, New South Wales Police: "Scott, his friend and two kids were picked up within 45 minutes of that boat going down because of one reason, and that is he had the presence of mind to activate the emergency beacon." 14. Close-up of emergency beacon 15. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Smiles, Rescued man: "I grabbed the Esky (brand of cooler box), jumped off the back deck. They jumped off the fly bridge, it was down to the water level by that stage, and the boat sunk, pretty well straight away, yeah." 16. Close-up of cooler box STORYLINE: Two men and their young sons were rescued after their boat sank in waters near the Australian city of Sydney on Thursday. They survived by clinging to a cooler box while waiting for a rescue helicopter to arrive. They had entered the water after they spotted black smoke coming from the engine of their fishing boat and water leaking into the engine hatch. One of the group, Rick Matthews, was later taken to hospital with a leg injury and minor burns. Detective Superintendent Mark Hutchings of New South Wales police credited their quick rescue to the activation of a positioning beacon. "Scott (Smiles), his friend and two kids were picked up within 45 minutes of that boat going down because of one reason, and that is he had the presence of mind to activate the emergency beacon," he said. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. AP'S HIGH DEFINITION ROLLOUT TIMETABLE All Customers This message is for ALL Associated Press (AP) customers to inform you of the upcoming changes to our service and how they will affect your organization. The timeline AP will be rolling out High Definition (HD) in phases, beginning with Entertainment from 11 November 2011, followed by Sports News Television (SNTV) in January 2012. The completion date for all News services will be Q2 2012 in time for the 2012 London Olympics in July and the US presidential elections in November. What does this mean for you? The HD upgrade will affect ALL customers. Changes to Delivery If you want to upgrade to HD, you will need to make changes to your hardware equipment - either by adopting Media Port or you may need to upgrade your current Media Port server. AP Direct will also be transitioned to an encrypted HD ONLY delivery and customers will need to provide their own HD compatible Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD). This will need to be operational by 1 February 2012. Satellite Upgrades We are upgrading our satellite network. This upgrade will affect ALL AP customers. For a full overview of changes to delivery and satellite upgrades, please visit: www.aphighdefinition.com To retrieve the login, please email: edcustomerliaisonap.org or aptn-webadminap.org ++++ APTN APEX 01-06-12 0440EST