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www.oakvillebeaver.com The Oakville Beaver, Friday March 9, 2007 - 5 Cellphone call to Florida saves Oakville man lost in new Brunswick Engineering student called dad, who called the RCMP By David Lea OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Upscale Designer Decor at a Price You Can Live With put a plan together fairly quickly including our helicopter services," said deWinter. Even disoriented, O'Connell was able guide Miraculous cellphone reception and a rapid rescuers to his location making periodic calls on response by the RCMP are being credited with his cellphone. saving the life of an Oakville man who became lost "We gathered enough information that he had in the wilderness of New Brunswick last relayed over his cellphone to get some GPS coorWednesday. dinates and then we were able to locate him by air Rory O'Connell, 22, an engiand we airlifted him out." neering student at the "That area is really a O'Connell was taken to University of New Brunswick, no-cellphone area, so Sussex Regional Hospital and was hiking to Adair's how he got a cellphone later transferred to Saint John Wilderness Lodge, near Bay of call out of there, I Regional Hospital suffering Fundy National Park, when he from frostbite he received durdo not know." became lost. ing his two-day odyssey. "He lost his compass, he lost With insufficient winter gear RCMP Sgt. John deWinter his water bottle and I think he to deal with the subzero temjust got disoriented," said actperatures deWinter said ing RCMP Sgt. John deWinter, who participated in O'Connell's prospects were very bleak had he not the rescue. been found when he was. "It's very mountainous and very rugged ter"I don't think he could have lasted much rain, so you can get turned around in there pretty longer out there," he said. quick." Even though O'Connell's cellphone worked With temperatures dropping to ­36C with the only sporadically, deWinter is amazed the device wind chill O'Connell used his cellphone to call his that played such a crucial role during the rescue father in Florida who in turn contacted the RCMP. worked at all. "Between 9 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. we got a request "That area is really a no-cellphone area, so how for assistance and because of the severe weather he got a cellphone call out of there, I do not conditions and information that was relayed we know." 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