Posted on 10/31/2017 9:45:33 AM PDT by ColdOne
Something is wishy-washy here. Two Hawaii women who claimed they were lost at sea for five months and “would have been dead within 24 hours” had the U.S. Navy not picked them up last week never activated their emergency beacon, the Coast Guard said Tuesday, adding to a growing list of inconsistencies and questions that cast doubt on their harrowing tale of survival in the Pacific Ocean.
"If the thing was operational and it was turned on, a signal should have been received very, very quickly that this vessel was in distress," Phillip R. Johnson, a retired Coast Guard officer, said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
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Looking for their 15 minutes of fame.
It’s a 50 footer. They stored mostly rice, beans and dry goods. There is a large amount of storage space on these boats.
They appear to be poor sailors. They had a main and jib they could have used.
I wonder what their husbands think about what happened.
Two dykes in a dingy.
They ate tacos to survive.
Their story has to be true; women don’t ever lie...do they?
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“For a 3 hour tour...”
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Why in God’s name would they have food for a year?
I wonder what their husbands think about what happened.
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What husbands?
I understand now where the term “fishy” comes from.
Sounds like a low budget porn movie.
“They ate tacos to survive.”
Ewwwwwwwwwww........!
I thought there was something wrong with this story when I first heard it. They were on a sail boat...on a 1,500 mile trip. Regardless if the engine went out, they didn’t know how to sail? On a huge ocean? Yeah, right...plans for a book sounds like to me.
Who goes on a 1,500 mile ocean and doesn’t know how to sail?? Told my wife the story was BS when I heard it.
She said that in her experience, it should be used only when you are in imminent physical danger and going to die in the next 24 hours.
“Our hull was solid, we were floating, we had food, we had water, and we had limited maneuverable capacity,” Appel said in Japan, where the U.S. Navy took them. “All those things did not say we are going to die. All that said, it’s going to take us a whole lot longer to get where we’re going.”
However, just hours earlier, Appel appeared to contradict herself by claiming her scenario was a life or death situation.
“Had [the USS Ashland] not been able to locate us, we would have been dead within 24 hours,” she told reporters in Okinawa on Monday, adding that they were both extremely grateful for the men and women of the USS Ashland.
Someone’s anchor has gone adrift.
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