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Teenagers Survive Six Days Lost at Sea
FOX News/AP ^ | May 1, 2005

Posted on 05/01/2005 5:53:56 PM PDT by nuconvert

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To: U S Army EOD

Your profile page is exactly right.


41 posted on 05/01/2005 7:37:45 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: nuconvert

An exciting story. Yet I didn't even know they were missing.


42 posted on 05/01/2005 7:43:42 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Sam Cree
You are way in the right of this argument, far as I can see...

Folks are reacting to the emotional appeal of the story, not the facts.

43 posted on 05/01/2005 7:46:39 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: Dante3

Very few people knew they were missing because the media was concentrating all its efforts on that dingbat from Duluth, Georgia.


44 posted on 05/01/2005 7:50:32 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: nuconvert
Regardless, one thing they did not exhibit was great seamanship, or even a modicum of common sense.

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.

46 posted on 05/01/2005 9:13:32 PM PDT by solitas (So what if I support a platform that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.7)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

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.


47 posted on 05/01/2005 10:29:46 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: Sam Cree

Ask Teddy, he knows the tides.


48 posted on 05/01/2005 10:34:36 PM PDT by Atchafalaya
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To: Atchafalaya
"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.

49 posted on 05/02/2005 5:48:45 AM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Seeking the truth

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.


50 posted on 05/02/2005 7:43:32 AM PDT by samanella ((Proud member of the vast right wing conspiracy-all my bumper stickers say so))
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To: nuconvert

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.


51 posted on 05/02/2005 8:05:37 AM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: billbears; Constitution Day; Alia; 100%FEDUP; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; ~Vor~; A2J; a4drvr; ...
They found these boys about 7 miles off Cape Fear. In a 14 foot sailing dinghy...

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52 posted on 05/02/2005 8:53:20 AM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: e_engineer

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.


53 posted on 05/02/2005 11:50:09 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis- let's conserve the sun,wind and tides, for future generations.)
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To: nuconvert

A family snapshot shows Troy Driscoll (left) and Josh Long after a less memorable fishing trip. (AP photo)

54 posted on 05/02/2005 11:53:55 AM PDT by SuperSonic (GOD Bless America!)
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To: Sam Cree

Manatees can swim against the tide-Theodore could have came ashore anywhere he chose to.


55 posted on 05/02/2005 11:58:28 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis- let's conserve the sun,wind and tides, for future generations.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

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.


56 posted on 05/02/2005 12:21:11 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree

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.


57 posted on 05/02/2005 2:37:29 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis- let's conserve the sun,wind and tides, for future generations.)
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To: F.J. Mitchell

Oh sorry to be so dense!

Yeah, Teddy does look like a manatee, only not as good.


58 posted on 05/02/2005 4:36:00 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree

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.


59 posted on 05/02/2005 5:01:15 PM PDT by F.J. Mitchell ( Nuke the energy crisis- let's conserve the sun,wind and tides, for future generations.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Regardless? and they did not exhibit great seamanship, or even a modicum of common sense.

Well OKAY THEN.

That was kind of a given Mr. Captain Obvious, a sunfish on the open ocean.


Shoulda Woulda Coulda if if if did not happen.

What I was reacting to was your seemingly flip description of their situation and solution to that. That seemed at least as poor seamanship and thought. You had 0 knowledge of the actual sea conditions and capabilities of the boys

Of course here we are bandying it about on a msg board and they were real time real life out there.
60 posted on 05/02/2005 10:30:30 PM PDT by chariotdriver
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