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Search for:. Search Articles. Search Store. Post Tags australian history natural disasters on this day on this day in history threadbo landslide. The only survivor, Stuart Diver, is carried to safety by ambulance paramedics. Related Video. Read Next. On this day: Pemulwuy is killed Remembering the Indigenous resistance fighter determined to maintain Aboriginal traditions by resisting British rule.
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As a result, it was only at pm the next day that rescuers were able to pull a body out of the rubble. While finding the body may have been a sign of progress in the operation, it was also an omen for how the rest of the rescue would go.
Still, rescuers continued on in search of survivors. In the early morning of August 02, the rescue team made contact with Stuart Diver, a ski instructor that had been buried under concrete and surrounded by ice-cold waters for almost two and a half days. During the landslide, Stuart and his wife, Sally, were trapped in their bedroom and surrounded by flooding waters. Despite all that, Stuart still had a chance to survive.
Not only did rescuers know where he was, but they were also able to speak with him throughout the operation. That being said, saving him was still easier said than done. Rescuers had to be extra careful with Stuart as doctors figured his body had built up toxins during his time trapped under the rubble. In fact, Stuart could have gone into toxic shock if rescuers made any wrong moves. All 19 were trapped under a mess of earth, debris, and heavy concrete slabs.
There was just one survivor. Australia's worst landslide disaster ABC news journalist Maurie Ferry was among the first media to arrive. Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
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