[kingu]

The great thing about packet communications, even deep in the southern ocean, is that you can get a short text message through extremely quickly, even if conditions aren't fantastic (say, for example, when your satellite phone works like crud...)

It never ceases to amaze me how they'll write and issue press releases, then get frustrated that they can't even get a simple position ping from another vessel. I mean, I understand, it's super easy to sucker a contributor to pitch in for satellite telephone time - after all, Paul Watson has to have his statement/interviews while in the southern ocean - much harder to talk someone into popping for internet time.

Over and over again, there's location identification problems, basic direct commands that are unable to get through, all of which could easily be handled with off the shelf communication equipment for much less than what they blow in quick telephone calls ship to ship, or ship to boat which results in zero communications in the end.

[EQAndyBuzz]

One strafing run and this show would have been off the air quicker than “Hello Larry.”

[Pan_Yan]

So you’re on a helicopter in the antarctic in the fog and you can’t communicate with your mother ship.

Is that bad?