Posted on 05/01/2005 5:53:56 PM PDT by nuconvert
Your profile page is exactly right.
An exciting story. Yet I didn't even know they were missing.
Folks are reacting to the emotional appeal of the story, not the facts.
Very few people knew they were missing because the media was concentrating all its efforts on that dingbat from Duluth, Georgia.
Orange vests? radio/beacon/cell? flare? smoke? mirror/lasersignal? line? candy/water? sunshield?
You can buy vests that HOLD all that stuff, and more, totally waterproofed, adding a couple of pounds (less water) of weight, for decent prices.
Ignoring a NWS advisory? Out on the ocean?
Idiots.
Gotta agree, follow the glow at night and keep the rising sun at your back; paddling with hands should get both within the vicinity of landfall well short of 6 days. City kids; lucky as hell to be alive.
Ask Teddy, he knows the tides.
I guess you know that there is terrific tide flow between Chappaquidick and Martha's Vineyard in the spot where he is purported to have swam accross. And then waited until morning to notify the police, apparently.
One thing is for sure, if it wasn't slack tide, he ended up way downstream from where he started, short distance though it was.
The reports I heard stated they didn't bother to take their sail, just a couple of paddles -- they were just going fishing. And, there was a small craft wind advisory -- that small boat should have never been in the water with that alert. Very, very, very lucky.
These kids were lucky in more ways than one. The article at foxnews says they drank seawater to quench their thirst. They're lucky their kidneys didn't fail.
You are sh*tt*ng us, right? Those kids survived the sea in that?
Even with it being unsinkable, their survival is a major miracle.
Thank God for watching over them.
A family snapshot shows Troy Driscoll (left) and Josh Long after a less memorable fishing trip. (AP photo)
Manatees can swim against the tide-Theodore could have came ashore anywhere he chose to.
I guess the kids could have swam the boat ashore, and should have. I gather from the article that they were disoriented as to direction and distance, though, since they thought they were off the coast of Africa.
I was wondering if they were near an inlet or river mouth when they first were carried out to sea. No way to swim against those kinds of tides, but yeah, once they were north of it, swimming should have worked.
In the response about the manatee being able to swim against the current,I wasn't implying the kids should have been able to do that. I was calling Ted Kennedy a manatee in response to a post referring to his swimming abilities.
A picture in living, with Ted and a manatee side by side, would look like identical rwins.
Oh sorry to be so dense!
Yeah, Teddy does look like a manatee, only not as good.
LOL! No problem. Dense is relative....why I have relatives that are so dense, that.....Never mind, I don't want to sound like I'm bragging.
Just kidding-my relatives know who their dense relative is.
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