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Navy rescues 2 Americans and their dogs who were lost at sea for months
USA Today ^ | October 26,2017 | John Bacon

Posted on 10/26/2017 1:08:53 PM PDT by Hojczyk

Edited on 10/26/2017 4:42:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2dumbgirls; rescue; uscg; usnavy
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1 posted on 10/26/2017 1:08:53 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Army Air Corps

Ping


2 posted on 10/26/2017 1:10:21 PM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Hojczyk

Good thing it wasn’t a three hour tour, or they would have been stuck on an island for years.


3 posted on 10/26/2017 1:10:52 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Hojczyk

The Pacific Ocean is really big.


4 posted on 10/26/2017 1:11:20 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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To: Hojczyk

Jennifer Appel looks to be in very good shape for a person that had been lost at sea for five months.


5 posted on 10/26/2017 1:11:44 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Hojczyk

Whadddowegot - two dykes in a dingy?


6 posted on 10/26/2017 1:12:01 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Hojczyk

Great job by the US Navy. Incredibly bizarre story though. OK, so the engine failed. It’s a sailboat. It seems that instead of just floating along, one could randomly choose just about any direction but south and eventually hit some sort of landmass


7 posted on 10/26/2017 1:12:02 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Hojczyk

I know nothing about sailing. Water purifiers and 1 year supply of food seem smart, but wondering about having no ability to repair motor, and no navigation equipment (or skills to navigate by star)


8 posted on 10/26/2017 1:12:30 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Ingtar
"Good thing it wasn’t a three hour tour, or they would have been stuck on an island for years."

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You say that like it's a bad thing - ?

Yeah that Gilligan was a real dunce ;)

9 posted on 10/26/2017 1:15:26 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: PGR88

No spare GPS batteries and apparently no coconuts to recharge the ones they had.


10 posted on 10/26/2017 1:15:54 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Blue House Sue

Oatmeal is very nutritious. I’ve been living on it for years and aside from the health issue that is causing the good intolerance, am in really very good health otherwise.

I’m sure they supplemented with sea food for protein.

I wonder, though, what possessed them to take along a year’s supply of food.


11 posted on 10/26/2017 1:16:04 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: PGR88

They had a radio but no GPS?


12 posted on 10/26/2017 1:17:04 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: metmom

They knew they had no guys to drive.


13 posted on 10/26/2017 1:18:07 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: PGR88
I know nothing about sailing. Water purifiers and 1 year supply of food seem smart, but wondering about having no ability to repair motor, and no navigation equipment (or skills to navigate by star)

Incredible! Anyone with an IQ above 75 would have had a solar panel charging batteries and a GPS unit (best to have several!). Perhaps they bought the sailboat and never learned to sail..., relying on the engine? This ranks up there with "Here Bubba..., hold my beer and watch this!"

14 posted on 10/26/2017 1:18:12 PM PDT by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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To: freedomlover

“Yeah that Gilligan was a real dunce ;)”

All the men were. Hot women and not one of them pounced on any of the 2? Gaaayyyyyyy


15 posted on 10/26/2017 1:18:32 PM PDT by beergarden
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The dogs were luckiest of all...


16 posted on 10/26/2017 1:19:02 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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True. Sailboats sail and their auxiliary engines,are mainly for getting in and out of harbors. Several hand held GPS units, Costing about $100 apiece, would have enabled them to find their position at most times. Then there’s always a,compass, a clock, a sextant, and a chart that will enable a,Navigator to determine her position whenever the weather’s reasonably clear. As a reasonably experienced Lake Michigan sailor, I can say they really screwed up and are lucky to be alive.


17 posted on 10/26/2017 1:21:34 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: ExSES

I read that every Naval vessel has a sextant and a copy of The American Practical Navigator by Bowditch.

That and some knowledge on how to use the instruments would be quite helpful, I would think.


18 posted on 10/26/2017 1:22:23 PM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Hojczyk

“primarily oatmeal, pasta and rice.”

All which requires copious amounts of water, and heat to boil it with. Is cooking such in saltwater a nutritionally good idea? else how much pure water did they have? Maybe a desalination system on board, but what resources limit its use? Whither fuel?


19 posted on 10/26/2017 1:22:24 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Delta 21
The Pacific Ocean is really big.

"How big is it?" - Johnny Carson

20 posted on 10/26/2017 1:22:46 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (It's gonna be bloody.)
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