Posted on 04/03/2015 12:23:32 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A US man missing at sea for more than two months was celebrating a miraculous rescue after being picked up by a passing ship and airlifted to land, the US Coast Guard said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bangkokpost.com ...
This incident took place right offshore our Eastern coast...and I read about it in a Bangkok newspaper!
There is so much lousy journalism in the US papers. Horrible stories. We stopped getting our local paper because it is all drek.
You truly cannot comprehend how really small you are in comparison to the open ocean until you’ve been in a survival raft at sea with nothing but water in every direction. It doesn’t matter how bright the International Orange color appears; even that color is lost in the huge vastness of the ocean.
Utterly ridiculous in this day and age. Personal locator beacons, satellite based, designed expressly for this,, are about 300 bucks. Nobody should spend more than a day or so this way.
I want to hear MORE!
if that was with obama, there’d be a mouth hole cut out.
And I want to hear more of your story!? Although I imagine one can get that idea of smallness being on any size ship if you thought about it for awhile!
Seaworthy sailboat that is stable upsidedown?
/johnny
/johnny
It changes you.
“I called him at one point a few days after he left land... and he was a few miles offshore. “
He wasn’t a very experienced sailor and he intentionally planned to go fishing by himself for days?
He had a 35 ft boat and had no way to call for help?
I just don’t understand people like this.
Did a trans-Atlantic (MA to Gibraltar) on a 15 meter sail boat back in June 2001. We were 40 degrees north about 600 miles off the east coast and registered a 80F degrees water temperature in the Gulf Stream. If you're going to fall overboard the Gulf Stream is a good place to do it ...
Coincidental that I finished reading In the Heart of the Sea last night.
Big critters live out there.
I can’t believe that he didn’t have an EPIRB.
At first I thought maybe he had one, and he didn’t know to turn it on (since they said he was inexperienced), then I read the boat had capsized, so an EPIRB would have automatically started sending a signal when it got wet.
We don’t go far offshore, and not into the Atlantic but into the Gulf. Still if the Coast Guard has to come looking for you, even the Gulf it’s a needle meet haystack scenario.
Fishing? In a sailboat? Inexperienced is a compliment.
You should also read Owen Chase’s account “Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex”. His book was written the year after he returned to Nantucket.
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