They had been noticed by a Border Force airplane, earlier than an AMSA helicopter was dispatched to rescue them yesterday.
But authorities have grim fears for one more group of Indonesian fishermen caught up within the path of Cyclone Ilsa.
Their boat was sunk within the highly effective storm, with ten on board.
The surviving boat’s crew managed to save lots of one of many stranded fishermen earlier than their boat ended up on Bedwell Island.
But the remaining 9 fishermen are feared useless.
The survivors rescued from Bedwell Island had been taken to Broome Hospital for therapy.
The Rowley Shoals are a sequence of coral reefs about 300km off the coast of Western Australia, west of Broome.
The space is thought for its deep-sea fishing.
Bedwell Island itself is nothing however an extended patch of sand.
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Source: www.9news.com.au
