The man became lost after venturing out on a frozen stretch of the Northern Sea, near the Danish border, to photograph the sunset. Facing temperatures of -20 degrees Celsius, the disoriented photographer began flashing his camera, hoping that someone else watching the natural phenomena would be alerted to his distress.
Photo taken from webcam of internet page www.st.peter-ording-nordsee.de shows the beach of St. Peter-Ording on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Police say a woman watching the sunset on a webcam spotted a German man lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting police. Police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said Wednesday that the man was walking on the ice near St. Peter-Ording in the northernmost part of Germany when he became disoriented. He used a camera to flash for help. That got the attention of a woman hundreds of miles away in southern Germany who was watching the sunset over the sea on her computer. The woman contacted police who located the man. Police said the incident happened last week without giving more details. The man was in his forties and visiting the region. Stielow said that he could have easily frozen to death or fallen through the ice.
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Photo taken from webcam of internet page www.st.peter-ording-nordsee.de shows the beach of St. Peter-Ording on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Police say a woman watching the sunset on a webcam spotted a German man lost on the frozen North Sea and probably saved his life by alerting police. Police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow said Wednesday that the man was walking on the ice near St. Peter-Ording in the northernmost part of Germany when he became disoriented. He used a camera to flash for help. That got the attention of a woman hundreds of miles away in southern Germany who was watching the sunset over the sea on her computer. The woman contacted police who located the man. Police said the incident happened last week without giving more details. The man was in his forties and visiting the region. Stielow said that he could have easily frozen to death or fallen through the ice.
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Luckily, someone did catch sight of his digital SOS - a woman photographing the sunset hundreds of miles away. The woman had set up a camera on a beach near the Rhine, in southern Germany, and was monitoring the same vivid sunset from her home.
Seeing the flashes she immediately notified local police, who in turn sent out a rescue patrol.
Police spokeswoman Kristin Stielow told the
Daily Mail
: “He was walking on the ice, got disoriented and would probably have either fallen through the ice or succumbed to the cold.
“He was very lucky that this lady was sharing the same natural phenomenon, but from the warmth and safety of her own home.”
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