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Chatterbox => Extraneous exchanges => Topic started by: Cynthia M Kennedy on July 22, 2011, 09:06:25 AM

Title: Present-Day Castaways Rescued
Post by: Cynthia M Kennedy on July 22, 2011, 09:06:25 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/22/guam.missing.skiff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Cindy
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Title: Re: Present-Day Castaways Rescued
Post by: Martin X. Moleski, SJ on July 22, 2011, 11:05:51 AM

Quote from: Cynthia M Kennedy on July 22, 2011, 09:06:25 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/22/guam.missing.skiff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 (http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/22/guam.missing.skiff/index.html?hpt=hp_t2)

Kudos to them for going prepared for an emergency, for leaving an ETA with friends, and for providing a large "signal" for their rescuers to spot.  Their solar-powered radio seems to have worked to contact a nearby boat that, in turn, helped focus the search area.

Title: Re: Present-Day Castaways Rescued
Post by: Chris Johnson on July 23, 2011, 12:55:31 PM

Whats interesting here is the application of procedures and technology to facilitate their rescue! Unlike 1937 in the Pacific  :(

Title: Re: Present-Day Castaways Rescued
Post by: Hilary Christine Olson on July 23, 2011, 01:17:20 PM

Kind of ironic that one of the reporting  US Coast Guard Specialists is named Putnam .

Title: Re: Present-Day Castaways Rescued
Post by: Chris Johnson on July 23, 2011, 01:57:57 PM

Quote from: Hilary Christine Olson on July 23, 2011, 01:17:20 PM

Kind of ironic that one of the reporting  US Coast Guard Specialists is named Putnam .

Missed that one!

Title: Re: Present-Day Castaways Rescued
Post by: Rich Ramsey on July 29, 2011, 12:13:04 PM

Quote from: Hilary Christine Olson on July 23, 2011, 01:17:20 PM

Kind of ironic that one of the reporting  US Coast Guard Specialists is named Putnam .

I thought I was the only one to catch that.