If your family is in trouble and they need help, what do you do? Help them. That is the simple ethos that drove a 13-year-old boy credited with saving the lives of his mother and two younger siblings with a four-hour open ocean swim after the family was swept out to sea.
Austin Appelbee navigated through two and a half miles on his own to swim to shore along the rugged Australian coastline to raise the alarm after he got into difficulties on Friday with his mother Joanne Appelbee, 47, brother Beau, 12, and sister Grace, 8, police said.
Austin said he then ran as fast as he could to find a phone to call emergency services.
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