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Lone wolf or liability?
The media has labelled Simon a Japan rescue hero and a search and rescue specialist, but a special HACK investigation shows that National Search and Rescue isn’t a registered organisation and they weren’t sent to Japan by the Australian Government.

Simon Sayfe from NSAR at Narita airport in Japan.

photo source: http://media.daum.net/breakingnews/view.html?cateid=100000&newsid=20110314040011899

“He says he pulled three bodies from under the water in tsunami-swamped towns, including one man he mistakenly thought was alive.”

That’s a quote from an ABC Online story about Simon Sayfe, from an organisation called National Search and Rescue.

He was interviewed at Gold Coast airport last week when he got back from tsunami ravaged areas of Japan.

Yesterday, HACK contacted Simon Sayfe who passed us on to Jemima Richards, one of the key co-ordinators of National Search and Rescue.

Jemima was open to coming on HACK tomorrow or early next week to give you their point of view.

She acknowledges that NSAR is not a registered not-for-profit organisation and that they weren’t part of the official response to the Japanese tsunami or the Christchurch earthquake, but she says they haven’t mislead anyone.

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