54-year-old British nature tourist Howard Holdsworth was in barren Western Australia, driving alone to a nature preserve, but he mistakenly drove past it. And then he found his vehicle bogged down until it wouldn't move.
At that point he was totally stranded on a beautiful section of beach. But without fresh water he would soon be in trouble. So he created this huge SOS banner in the sand, which a routine passing coastline patrol happened to sea. They mounted a rescue and Mr. Holdsworth is fine.
I include it here because you always see standed people and castaways making these big SOS signs and flashing their belt buckles at passing ships and planes, but this is the first time I've ever heard of it actually working.
