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To: Squidpup

So, what saved them? The GPS on the cell phone or the coordinates from the bottle?


4 posted on 01/16/2008 1:10:30 PM PST by raybbr (You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote!)
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Coordinates from the bottle saved them. Their cellphone didn't have the GPS feature. Using both, they were able to tell their rescuers EXACTLY where they were.

"If we had had a GPS (and a map), we probably would have been a lot better off," Pitts said.

8 posted on 01/16/2008 1:18:06 PM PST by Captain Rhino ( If we have the WILL to do it, there is nothing built in China that we cannot do without.)
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To: raybbr
So, what saved them? The GPS on the cell phone or the coordinates from the bottle?

Don't know but you can rule out smarts. A smart person would not have been up there.

11 posted on 01/16/2008 1:29:01 PM PST by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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The cache was a container that had in it a logbook with it’s exact latitude and longitude printed on it. They were able to relay this information to rescuers via the cell phone.


19 posted on 01/16/2008 1:45:45 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
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