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December 28th, 2011 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Body found … fishing charter boat Rapture capsized in the Whitsundays / Pic: Hamilton Island Watersports website.
Source: The Daily Telegraph
POLICE divers last night found the body of a Sydney woman trapped inside a fishing charter boat that capsized after being hit by a “mini cyclone” in the Whitsundays.
Doris Wibowo, 31, of Ingleburn, in Sydney’s south-west, and her partner were among 12 people on the vessel Rapture when they were caught in a tropical storm.
With wind gusts up to 115km/h and heavy rain, it is believed the 10m vessel was trying to return to Hamilton Island when a gust caught the boat’s canopy, flipping it on its side, in Turtle Bay off Whitsunday Island about 4.30pm on Tuesday. A second gust then rolled the boat, throwing its 10 passengers and two crew into the water.
Battling wild seas, passengers desperately clung to the hull of the upturned boat as a nearby vessel came to their aid, plucking them from the water within 20 minutes. But a head count showed Ms Wibowo was missing.
Poor weather and seas up to 2m hampered search efforts that evening, with a full- scale operation beginning at 5am yesterday.
Last night, police divers were able to search the overturned vessel after it was towed to Hamilton Island and found Ms Wibowo’s body.
Two helicopters and a plane had spent the day in a fruitless search of nearby islands in the hope Ms Wibowo had made it to land, while several marine rescue vessels and a police boat conducted a grid search of the ocean.
Senior-Sergeant Steve O’Connell said the storm had caught the boat crew by surprise.
“It was a large storm that brewed up fairly quickly and moved across,” he said. “It’s predominantly a fishing charter boat so it has good shade protection and a wind gust got up under that and tipped it on its side and then a further gust turned it right over.”
Fin Forbes, of Volunteer Marine Rescue Whitsundays, said the storm was a shocker.
“It was an unbelievable storm, just like a mini-cyclone,” he said. “Everyone was caught by surprise, it suddenly turned and came in, dark as night and blowing its guts out.”
Some debris and wreckage has been spotted south of the bay floating in strong currents.
CQ Helicopter Rescue chief executive Phil Dowling said they had hoped against hope of finding the woman alive.
“We had thought she might be adrift and clinging to some wreckage,” he said.
“But the search is over.”
A spokeswoman for Hamilton Island Watersports, which operates Rapture, refused to comment on the incident.
Turtle Bay is a popular snorkelling site and yacht mooring point on Whitsunday Island near the Hamilton Island resort.
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