Man sending light signals for help is saved after a woman was watching the sunset on webcam.
It is a remarkable story on how a man can be saved by a webcam. The live camera today can be used for other reasons than for tourists. Someone who just happened to be viewing the live camera alerted police.
It all started when a tourist was lost in the dark on a frozen sea in north Germany. A woman watching the sunset from a live local area camera happened to notice camera flashes from a far distance. The tourist, whose name has not been given, was trying to reach help.
The tourist has been lost after walking onto ice off St Peter-Ording to photograph the same sunset. The woman watching the live camera alerted police who were able to guide the tourist to safety. If it wasn't for the camera device the man could've frozen to death or fallen through the ice.
"He got lost on the ice and could not find the coast again because it was covered in snow," police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said in a statement.
Stielow said the local community is aware of the risk of disorientation after dark. The beach can become hard to locate after sunset because of the frozen landscape. This is one of those remarkable stories on how technology can save lives.
Sunset Photograph Leads to Disorientation
The man had climbed over ice off the coast to photograph the sunset. He then became disoriented and lost his location on the ice. The air temperature was below freezing at the time he lost his direction.
Story from www.newsoxy.com
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