This dude would absolutely be dead if he didn't have an Apple Watch. Makes me think I should get the cellular next time I upgrade, even if I don't activate it.
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Apple Shares Emergency SOS Apple Watch Success Story
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You have to have cellular connection to make an SOS call. The Ultra has cellular built in but you obviously have to get a carrier connection.
No you don't. In most countries an unactivated cellphone can call emergency services.
The cool thing with the Ultra is that you can just long press on the action button to bring up SOS calling. I just learned that today.
Apple today shared a minute-long video promoting the Emergency SOS feature on the Apple Watch, highlighting the rescue of Australian man Rick Shearman, who was swept out to sea last July.
Shearman was swimming in Byron Bay when rough seas pushed him away from shore, with the current carrying him over 1.5 kilometers from the beach. He couldn't get past the waves, and after about 20 minutes of trying to get to shore, he realized he needed help.
He called emergency services using the Emergency SOS feature on his Apple Watch, with the call played back in Apple's ad spot in a dramatic reenactment of the event. He was able to source help, and stayed on the line with emergency crews for an hour to direct them to his location. He was ultimately rescued by helicopter.
Emergency SOS on Apple Watch can be activated by holding down the Side Button to call the local emergency services for the area that you're in.
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Not as dramatic but I was on a stand up paddle board when the water got choppy and I got pushed far out into the lake and it was getting dark. I didn't have the energy to keep paddling so I just laid down on the board and called my friend from my Apple Watch Ultra to let them know what was happening. It was reassuring to know that I could call for a boat to come get me if I got in real trouble. Eventually the water settled down and I was able to paddle back to shore.
Metric system is the easiest and most accurate one. You're going to tell me feet, mile, yard are better?
That area makes the news reasonably often, just recently a policeman was swept away
www.abc.net.au
Search suspended for Qld police officer Jay Notaro missing from northern NSW
The search for a missing Queensland police officer has been suspended four days after the inspector disappeared near a northern New South Wales beach.
www.abc.net.au
Yes that would be a great EPIRB type of device ( all boaters shoukd have on strapped to their body) avaiable for all recreational swimmers and divers
Metric time doesn't use years, months, days, hours or minutes. You aught to talk about which Terrasecond we're in if you want to be taken as a serious advocate of metric.
But also, you're assuming a preferred frame exists and that time is linear, both of which were falsified by special relativity some amount of time ago (it was definitely in the past - causality is real!)
Australians are a weird mob. Someone probably said “about a mile” and then it got converted in the media. They tend to talk about guessed distance in imperial, but properly measure distance in kms. It was just reported as kms.
If you mean the Ultra, well, yes, because all Ultras have cellular connectivity hardware. But that is not the case in non-Ultra watches. In those, you can use emergency services without your iPhone nearby only with those including cellular connectivity hardware.
Rough conditions for the watch to communicate. When my Ultra 2 is underwater the speaker and mic are not usable before they dry again. Can’t imagine how a phone call works properly in this condition and cellular signal is gone when you are more than a couple of centimeters under water also.
I understand both and use both. I wasn’t the one complaining about the metric system.
I guess reading the posts is too much for ya, huh?
I don't know if I am doing something wrong but when I am in the sea with my watch I am unable to perform any input function. It always ask me if I am swimming for example, but I am unable to respond until I return to shore do a water eject and then it frees up the input capability.
Apple today shared a minute-long video promoting the Emergency SOS feature on the Apple Watch, highlighting the rescue of Australian man Rick Shearman, who was swept out to sea last July.
Shearman was swimming in Byron Bay when rough seas pushed him away from shore, with the current carrying him over 1.5 kilometers from the beach. He couldn't get past the waves, and after about 20 minutes of trying to get to shore, he realized he needed help.
He called emergency services using the Emergency SOS feature on his Apple Watch, with the call played back in Apple's ad spot in a dramatic reenactment of the event. He was able to source help, and stayed on the line with emergency crews for an hour to direct them to his location. He was ultimately rescued by helicopter.
Emergency SOS on Apple Watch can be activated by holding down the Side Button to call the local emergency services for the area that you're in.
Article Link: Apple Shares Emergency SOS Apple Watch Success Story
A rip tide is normally very narrow. You do not swim against it but you can swim out of it either by swimming with it at an angle or at 90 degrees to it.