It's interesting how people see the world. This is a massive quake, with 3 million people affected -- and the request is for a boat to help them out. They need a lot more than that.
Conversely, I heard someone on the radio this morning -- they live in Ann Arbor, Michigan and they got through to a relative in Haiti. The relative asked, "How much devastation did you get in Michigan? Is everyone OK there?"
Nice of them to ask, I suppose, but although this is a massive quake, it wasn't that massive.
These “boats” have over a dozen operating rooms and typically as many as 1,000 or more hospital beds. The main hospitals in Port Au Prince have collapsed....what you ask for in this case?
How exactly does one help 3,000,000 people instantly?
That's because many people of Haiti actually believed that the quake was global and the world was ending.