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Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Published on Jan 18, 2018 
  
 A drone helped save two teenage swimmers struggling in powerful surf on the Australian coastline on Thursday (January 18), in what the local authorities called a "world first". 
  
  
  
 Just before midday local time, a member of the public spotted the 16 and 17-year-old boys caught in a rip current in rough seas off Lennox Head, a beach popular with surfers about 750 kilometers (466 miles) north of Sydney. 
  
  
  
 A Westpac Little Ripper Lifesaver drone was quickly launched and directed to the boys' location, where it deployed a life raft then used by the pair to get back to safety. The call for help just so happened to have sounded as a group of nearby lifeguards were undergoing training in the use of drones. 
  
  
  
 Government officials, including New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro, called the incident a "world first", local media reported, adding that it was also significantly quicker to get to the location using a drone. 
  
  
  
 Australia, whose 24 million people live mostly on the coast, had 291 drowning deaths in the year ending June 30, 2017, a small increase over the prior year but a decline on a per capita basis, according to the Royal Life Saving Society. ||||| A dramatic rescue at Lennox Head on the state's Far North Coast has made world history after new drone technology was used to save two swimmers struggling in heavy surf. 
  
 As lifeguards were training to familiarise themselves with the drone equipment as part of the NSW government's $16 million shark mitigation strategy on Thursday, a call came through of two distressed swimmers. 
  
 Lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan, the 2017 NSW Lifeguard of the Year, was piloting the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) at the time, immediately responded and was able to locate the swimmers within minutes of the initial alert. 
  
 "The Little Ripper UAV certainly proved itself today, it is an amazingly efficient piece of lifesaving equipment and a delight to fly," Mr Sheridan said. 
  
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 Link The two swimmers were seen struggling in heavy surf at Lennox Head. Photo: NSW GOVERNMENT 
  
 "I was able to launch it, fly it to the location, and drop the pod all in about one to two minutes. On a normal day that would have taken our lifeguards a few minutes longer to reach the members of the public." 
  
 Westpac Little Ripper chief executive Eddie Bennet said the rescue shows Australia is leading the world in this technology and it "clearly illustrates the benefit of this cutting-edge technology in such a time-critical emergency situation." 
  
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 "The investment by Westpac in allowing the development of the Westpac Little Ripper, is the new generation of rescue services," Mr Bennet said. 
  
 In December 2017, the NSW government announced it would invest $430,000 in drone technology as part of a trial on the North Coast of NSW. 
  
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 Link The drone dropped the flotation device to the swimmers. Photo: NSW GOVERNMENT 
  
 Deputy Premier and Minister for Regional NSW John Barilaro, said Thursday's rescue proves that the government's investment is paying off. 
  
 "It's quite incredible to see that the NSW Government's investment in this technology has already resulted in two people having their lives saved," Mr Barilaro said. 
  
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 Link Once they had a grasp on the flotation device, the swimmers were able to make their way to shore. Photo: NSW GOVERNMENT 
  
 "Never before has a drone, fitted with a flotation device been used to rescue swimmers like this." 
  
 Both swimmers were able to use the pod to make their way to shore, where they were met by lifeguards and only appeared to show signs of fatigue. 
  
 Ben Franklin, Parliamentary Secretary for Northern NSW, thanked the lifeguards for their incredible efforts. 
  
 "It took only 70 seconds from when the Little Ripper drone was launched to when it dropped the pod into the ocean for the rescue, a task that would usually take a lifeguard up to six minutes to complete," Mr Franklin said. 
  
 "This was an extraordinary rescue with the very best possible outcome." ||||| Lifeguards used a drone to rescue two teenagers from rough seas off the northern coast of New South Wales in Australia today (Jan. 18). 
  
 The lifeguards happened to be piloting the new technology when they received a distress signal and deployed a drone to search for the struggling swimmers. Footage relayed from the drone camera (which can be viewed here) caught two people in distress near Lennox Head in the northern coastline of the state. The video shows the drone releasing a flotation device, which the two teenagers swam toward and clung onto as they are pounded by waves. Ben Franklin, parliamentary secretary for Northern New South Wales, said the whole process only took 70 seconds, compared to the six minutes it usually takes a lifeguard to rescue swimmers. 
  
 Ben Trollope A flotation device is dropped from a drone to the struggling swimmers. 
  
 Deputy premier and minister for regional New South Wales John Barilaro said it was the first time such technology had been used to save lives in the sea. 
  
 The New South Wales government invested A$430,000 ($340,000) last year in a fleet of drones to patrol for sharks in the northern beaches of the state. Some of those drones are fitted with artificial intelligence to detect sharks. Drones have also been patrolling for sharks on Australia’s west coast, including one incident (paywall) in December where lifeguards evacuated a beach in Perth after spotting a three-meter shark swimming near a surfer and a group of children. 
  
 Kevin Weldon, who founded the company that makes the Little Ripper drones, which were used in the rescue in Australia, was inspired after he saw an unmanned helicopter searching for survivors in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The moment when the drone saves swimmers at Lennox Head 
  
 Two teenage boys were rescued by a brand new lifesaving drone in Australia while lifeguards were still training to use the device. 
  
 The swimmers, aged 15-17, had got into difficulties off the coast of Lennox Head, New South Wales (NSW). 
  
 A member of the public spotted them struggling in heavy surf about 700m (2,300ft) offshore. 
  
 Lifesavers instantly sent the drone to drop an inflatable rescue pod, and the pair made their way safely to shore. 
  
 John Barilaro, the state's deputy premier, praised the rescue as historic. "Never before has a drone fitted with a flotation device been used to rescue swimmers like this," he said. 
  
 Lifeguard supervisor Jai Sheridan was piloting the device when the alarm was raised. He described the experience as "unreal". 
  
 "The Little Ripper UAV certainly proved itself today, it is an amazingly efficient piece of lifesaving equipment and a delight to fly," he told the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. 
  
 Image caption New South Wales has invested in drones to help spot sharks and rescue swimmers or surfers in trouble (file picture) 
  
 Image copyright NSW government Image caption After grabbing the rescue pod the boys were able to swim back to shore - exhausted but otherwise unharmed. 
  
 Mr Sheridan said it took just a minute or two to launch the drone, fly it to the rescue site, and drop the pod. 
  
 Any other day, reaching the teenagers could easily have taken three times as long. 
  
 The drone's camera also recorded the whole rescue. 
  
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 The NSW state government revealed in December that it had invested A$430,000 ($340,000 / £247,000) in a fleet of drones. While some are designed to spot sharks, others feature flotation pods, alarms and loudspeakers. |||||
Student:
In what the deputy premier of New South Wales is calling a "historic" rescue, two teens were saved from choppy surf thanks to a drone that dropped an inflatable safety device to them—all as it recorded the rescue. The BBC reports that Aussie lifeguards were still testing how to use the Little Ripper drone when a beachgoer saw the boys, said to be between the ages of 15 and 17, struggling in the water nearly a half-mile from shore. The lifeguards immediately launched the drone, and Quartz points to the video footage of the rescue, which is also making the rounds on YouTube. The drone first glides over the aquamarine waters, then spots two tiny black dots (the teens) being pounded by the waves down below. The clip then shows the drone drop the bright-yellow rescue device, which self-inflates when it hits the water. The boys grab hold of the inflatable and kick their way back to shore. The head lifeguard who sent the drone out calls it an "amazingly efficient piece of lifesaving equipment and a delight to fly," per the Sydney Morning Herald. He says he was able to get the drone off the ground and the inflatable to the boys all within a couple of minutes; a local parliament official says a lifeguard rescue would have likely taken up to six minutes. The New South Wales government just last month announced it had put up about $345,000 for a drone fleet, with some meant for rescues like this and others designed for other purposes, such as spying sharks in the water. "This was an extraordinary rescue with the very best possible outcome," a local parliament member notes. The rescued boys were exhausted when they got to shore but seemed otherwise OK. (A drone saved a 92-year-old hunter in Virginia.)