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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Barney Davis

Men stranded for 36 hours on yacht taking on water off coast of Australia

A rescue mission has been launched to save two men whose yacht started to take on water during a storm off the coast of Australia and New Zealand.

Two New Zealanders, in their 70s, have been stranded on a yacht in the Tasman Sea for almost 36 hours after severe storms struck the boat 164 miles off the coast of Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea.

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