To: raybbr
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.)
To: Captain Rhino
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.I doubt very much that their cell phones don't have GPS on a 911 call. I don't think they even sell them without it anymore.
The GPS he's referring to is a seperate unit the climbers can rent or borrow.
My question still hasnt' been answered.
17 posted on
01/16/2008 1:40:43 PM PST by
raybbr
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