When logging on to sea rescue it pays to give a reasonable location of where you will be fishing,eg---12 nm on 240deg,not as most give at present.
Here in Carnarvon we quite often get someone logging in as going to the "islands"
Great, there are three islands covering 30nm,then there is inside the islands,outside the islands.If a boat goes missing where do we go to begin our search,stand facing the water,point an arm directly out to sea,spread the fingers on one hand and take a guess which one to use as a beginning.I had a a boat call up to extend his ETA by 1.5 hours,he did a relay to his fishing mate who was behind the island and out of coverage to see if he wanted to extend as well.When I looked at the sheet he had logged in as going to fish 25miles north east of his present location,I asked him where he was and he said exactly where I thought he was.
Had something happened and if I hadn't updated his location and he had gone missing the first place we start looking is the his last known position,some 25 miles away.It would have taken some 12 hours into the search to even get somewhere near him---too late if he is in the drink.

If for some reason you change your position by more that 2-4nm,give us a call and update,it only takes a few words on the log sheet and 30 seconds by radio and if you're one of those secretive bloke who are paranoid of someone finding your spot use your phone,We usually have heaps of good fishing spots and are not interested in stealing others that we probably have already.

Doing these little things can literally mean life or death,yours or one of the people who has to try to find you