Even if the victim is outside, the watch will call for help and will also pass along the location of the person who needs help. It can also call the user's emergency contacts to alert them of a problem and will also include the location of the affected person. After the Sheriff's Office received the call from the Apple Watch, law enforcement staff requested assistance from King County Air Support to transport an injured skier. The only information known about the victim is that he was a skier and fell 1,000 feet, injuring one of his legs.

With the injured person at risk of freezing to death due to the extremely cold temperature, the rescue team set off just after sunset on Wednesday and eventually found the injured skier. A video released by King County Sheriff Air Support shows the rescue and you can see a person with the victim waving to the rescue crew about a minute and 14 seconds into the video. Since the camera was apparently using heat-sensing equipment, what you see is a strangely shaped white humanoid figure looming.

As the helicopter approaches, you can see the outline of the victim lying on the ground while another person points to first responders. After some maneuvers in the air, the helicopter was directly above the injured skier, and a member of the rescue team was gently lowered to the surface. The injured skier was connected to equipment that allowed him to be towed to the helicopter.

During the rescue mission, the team discovered that a second skier was injured and unable to walk. The decision was made to lift the three people into the helicopter and take them to hospital for medical treatment.

If the first skier had not had an Apple Watch to call for help and automatically list his location, it is very likely that he would have died of hypothermia (freezing to death). Perhaps the same fate awaited his partner and the second injured skier. Overall, this was another example of how the Apple Watch has been a lifesaver.