Yikes, that’s a huge search area. Amazing that the object ended up on what looks to be a tiny island. Wonder if satellite pix would help to spot further debris in such a large area. Study of currents should help, I would think.
I still want to know how the transponder and communications got turned off and how the plane totally veered WEST when it was supposed to be flying North to China.
We were on the Century some stuff are island magnets The Ghost vessel got to the island of Maui threee weeks after the rescue we missed Maui because of the time it took rescue them crazy
Posted on November 1, 2011
Earlier this month, crewmembers aboard the Celebrity Century cruise ship recorded interesting video of the rescue of an injured skipper in the Pacific as the cruise ship sailed to Hawaii.
The incident involved the Quantum Leap, a 49 foot sailing yacht which was being delivered from San Diego to Honolulu by captain Phillip Johnson, together with his nephew and another friend.
After the sailboat left California, it began experiencing problems with its generators and batteries, which compromised power to the sailboat’s satellite phone and GPS.
Captain Johnson was injured badly when rough weather struck the sailboat. Because of the distance to the closest port (some 700 miles), the U.S. Coast Guard was unable to send a helicopter but contacted vessels in the area.
In this case, the Celebrity Century was sailing to Hilo. As explained in an interesting account from Sail World, Celebrity Captain Konstantinos Patsoulas turned the 815 foot cruise ship around and headed for the sailboat which took approximately 12 hours.
You can see how the cruise ship deployed the rescue boat and took the crew of the Quantum Leap aboard the cruise ship, to the applause of the passengers and crew. The sailboat was adrift as the Century then continued it cruise to Hawaii.
Sail World also explains about how, three weeks later, the Quantum Leap washed ashore on a beach in Maui without its captain or crew . . .