Thread: For Those Who Have Used Your PLB

Have set mine off 3x over the years, none of the activations for me personally. 1: For a woman tramper who was in anaphylactic stress, her airway was compromised after bee stings. She was allergic but the stupid bitch wasn’t carrying an epi-pen or anything. I had given her antihistamine tablets from my first aid kit but to little effect as too much time had elapsed from being stung. She survived. 2: A hunter from another party we encountered. As we watched him hocking rear legs we saw a potential problem but before anyone could say anything he cut himself high inner thigh, very deep. Major blood loss and pressure bandage etc wasn’t going to cut the mustard so pushed the button. Chopper arrived within 20 minutes, happened to be at Wairau hospital at the time so handy. He survived but has trouble walking still. He was fukin lucky. 3: Godley Head gun emplacements. Was there with wife and kids sightseeing. Saw a woman and kid. Boy was running along not looking and ran over edge of emplacement trench. Boy was briefly unconscious when we got to him. Big lump on head, fluid coming out of ears, pupils were fixed. Didn’t hesitate, ran to car park and activated beacon. Rang 111 while going back to accident site and passed on details. Chopper was there quick smart. Guess kid survived ok. Fukin mother nutted off at me for doing what I did, she reckoned she’d have been alright driving him to hospital. Good that they replace activated beacon’s for free otherwise it could get expensive helping other people.