The Sunshine Coast-based LifeFlight aeromedical crew today rescued four people from their upturned boat off Inskip Point.
The LifeFlight helicopter was tasked by Retrieval Services Queensland and Queensland Water Police at 7:16am to reports of a seven-metre vessel that had been hit by a wave and capsized.
The rescue crew located four people sitting on top of the over-turned boat around five kilometres offshore.
A LifeFlight rescue crewman was winched down to the stranded boaties before they were winched into the aircraft.
One teenage female suffered a minor shoulder injury, a woman in her 20’s suffered an ankle injury, while two men aged 20s and 60s escaped injury.
All were airlifted to the Sunshine Coast University Hospital for further treatment.
