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.
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.Did he have the iPhone with him out there? Or was he just using his cellular AWU?
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.
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.
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.
Article Link: Apple Shares Emergency SOS Apple Watch Success Story
He obviously wasnt with Vodafone.What an amazing recuse. I'm amazed he got cellular service so far out, that's superb.
Metric system is the easiest and most accurate one. You're going to tell me feet, mile, yard are better?It’s a nice story, ruined by metric units.
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 diversThis will save even more lives when they add satellite SOS to the Apple Watch
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.It's 2025.
Laughed, but I think when using 000 it uses any carrier in range.He obviously wasnt with Vodafone.
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.It's less than a mile, roughly 1.6kms.
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.If you’re planning to surf, swim, do a triathlon, or dive nearby, it’s best to leave your iPhones behind . If we bring our iPhones in the water, we’ll need to put them in a waterproof case.
This guy only wore his Apple Watch Ultra 2 with the ocean band.
If you call emergency SOS on your Apple Watch, it will use cellular data on the Apple Watch if your iPhone isn’t with you, or if your iPhone is with you, it will use the cellular data from your iPhone. But even if you don’t set up cellular on your Apple Watch, it can still pick up cell towers to make emergency calls.
Yet it apparently did, or he wouldn't be here to tell the story.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.
1 mile =1.609 kilometers 1.6 km. Too much for ya, huh?It's 2025.
1 mile =1.609 kilometers 1.6 km. 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.You clearly don't go to the beach. A tide will take you out when there is a swell & you cannot swim against it or a rip. If he tried, he'd be dead from exhaustion! He clearly tried as much as he could.
In just a couple of minutes, you can be dragged out 100's of metres.
We have plenty of surf life saving facilities in Australia from beach to air, so he did the right thing.