Yes, that is what I said.
The bottom of the tire is flat.
Posted on 10/31/2017 6:34:09 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
HONOLULU — The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that two Hawaii women who were lost at sea for five months had an emergency beacon aboard their sailboat that was never activated. U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Lt. Scott Carr told The Associated Press that their review of the incident and subsequent interviews with the survivors revealed that they had the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon (EPIRB) aboard but never turned it on.
(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...
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.
The women previously said they had radios, satellite phones, GPS and other emergency gear, but they didn’t mention the Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon, or EPIRB. ...”
more at link...
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/31/holes-emerge-in-hawaii-womens-tale-survival-in-pacific.html
I think one of tem is an author.
Jennifer Appel confirmed in an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday they had the beacon and did not use 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.
“They saved our lives,” Appel also said last week, according to a Navy press release. “The pride and smiles we had when we saw [the Navy] on the horizon was pure relief.”
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/31/holes-emerge-in-hawaii-womens-tale-survival-in-pacific.html
Are they lesbian?
News reports have identified the two women as a couple. Is there another category for that?
The good news is those flats were only on one side of the tire. /s
I know - then why are we all here ;-)
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>> “They’re mentally ill so this shouldn’t surprise anyone.” <<
Thinking that owning a boat makes one a Blue Water sailor is deep delusion.
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The one on the left looks like Obama.
That does not look like a picture of two women and a dog who’ve been lost at sea for five months.
I think the story’s a hoax.
That clinches it. The story is a hoax, and Mom is in on it.
LOL! That’s the ticket!
“Wait, what? That wasn’t a dildo after all?”
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