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来自中国大陆的移民王勤涛(Qintao Wang)在周六去North Bondi岩钓时失踪,他的家人在晚上10点未能见到他返回后报警。
29岁的王最近刚刚从会计专业毕业,已经申请了永久居民。他的妻子怀有两个月的身孕。
警方在水边发现了他的钓具,随后救援队在空中和海上进行了搜寻。
昨天他的妻子和朋友在悬崖边焦急的等待结果,但是生存的机会渺茫。
本年度NSW已经有9人在岩钓鱼时不幸遇难。
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/rock-f ... -20100516-v6f8.html
Rock fishing death sparks lifejackets plea

Qintao Wang's pregnant wife Emily, centre, with family and friends at the cliff yesterday.

Members of Police Rescue scour the coast near Williams Park, North Bondi on Sunday after Qintao Wang failed to return after rock fishing at North Bondi on Saturday.

The North Bondi cliff face.
They are trained to save lives, but too often Tony Wood's rescue crew has had to pull the bodies of drowned rock fishermen out of the ocean.
With another angler swept off rocks at the weekend, Mr Wood, crew chief of the Westpac rescue helicopter, called for new laws making lifejackets compulsory for all involved in rock fishing.
''They can go under within minutes of going into the water,'' he said. ''If they were wearing lifejackets, they would be alive and would be saved.''
So far this year, nine people in NSW have died while rock fishing, five in a single incident a week ago near Catherine Hill Bay.
It is unclear what safety equipment Qintao Wang, a Chinese national, had with him on Saturday morning when he climbed down to fish off rocks at North Bondi. Police were alerted about 10pm when he failed to return home and located his fishing gear at the water line.
Mr Wang, 29, recently graduated as an accountant and had applied for permanent residency. His wife, Emily, is two months' pregnant with their first child.
A friend, Harry Wu, said Mr Wang had been fishing at that spot before. ''He told us it's a fairly safe place.''
But the Australian National Sportfishing Association's safety officer, Stan Konstantaras, said the area off North Bondi had claimed several lives. Safety alerts had warned of ''atrocious'' conditions at the weekend, he said.
He said on average there were seven rock fishing fatalities a year. Unless soundly enforced and accompanied by an education campaign, making lifejackets compulsory would not dramatically decrease those figures, he believed.
The key was getting anglers to ''use commonsense and be better educated when they are fishing the rocks''.
The association is one of the sponsors of the Safe Fishing website, which carries safety tips translated into Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean. It urges anglers to monitor the conditions, carry safety equipment and not to fish alone.
The Minister for Primary Industries, Steve Whan, also put the emphasis on education rather than legislation. The government funded programs to highlight safety issues for rock anglers and put out advice, workshops and DVDs.
Mr Whan said NSW ''is not a nanny state''. While rock fishing enthusiasts would not be forced to wear lifejackets, they should do it out of commonsense.
Mr Wang's distraught wife and friends yesterday watched the horizon off Bondi, hoping for the best but fearing the worst.
Mr Wood said while it cost $4000 an hour to keep a helicopter in the air, a lifejacket could be bought for ''the price of three days' bait''. But it was the human cost that counted most. ''What price do you put on a life?''
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