It's been on my mind so I'll post it. I am sad to hear that a couple and two kids may have gone down in a 29' sailboat 60 miles off the California coast Sunday afternoon. Rough weather, 40 to 50 degree water, no lifeboat, no EPIRB, no navigation gear to establish a fix, and two kids: one four and one about eight! Average survival time in that water: about six hours. I'm completely at a loss to understand how adults can be so oblivious to their responsibility. Perhaps additional information will appear. Coast Guard called off their search this afternoon.
60 miles out w/o a lifeboat?
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Latest news is that it might have been a hoax. An increasingly disturbing trend. Every year the Coast Guard has more and more false rescue calls, costing the tax payers untold amounts of money.
For what it is worth, my theory is that the false mayday calls are part of a larger plan to divert attention away from criminal activity by tying up resources, allowing the bad guys to pull off whatever crime they were planning.
For what it is worth, my theory is that the false mayday calls are part of a larger plan to divert attention away from criminal activity by tying up resources, allowing the bad guys to pull off whatever crime they were planning.
Could be, but the CG got two RF fixes that placed the location 65 miles, then an hour later 60 miles off the coast. The receiving antennas were in two separate coastal cities, so triangulation was good. If it was a hoax, it was broadcast from a boat (a plane would have made too much noise).
Hmm. Most curious. I looks like the families of the missing would have "come forward" by now. I don't know. IF it is on the level, I pray for them.
I hate to think otherwise.
Don't you know, that the Coasties, being human beings as well, when they go out and it's a "no joy", they've got to be hurt as well. I have to believe that the majority of them do it with the genuine desire to help.
And if it WAS a hoax, it's poor form on a whole different level.
I hate to think otherwise.
Don't you know, that the Coasties, being human beings as well, when they go out and it's a "no joy", they've got to be hurt as well. I have to believe that the majority of them do it with the genuine desire to help.
And if it WAS a hoax, it's poor form on a whole different level.
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