Posted on 04/12/2014 5:51:23 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
SAN DIEGO (KGO) -- There is now an estimate on how much it cost to rescue a San Diego family with a sick child off the coast of Mexico. A San Diego newspaper crunched the numbers and says the price for the joint effort between the Coast Guard, Navy and National Guard came to $663,000 and could go higher. The family arrived back on shore Wednesday. The parents have taken some heat for taking their children on a yearlong sailing trip.
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This family moved from CA to Mexico a year ago. The baby was born in Mexico. The doctor that cleared the baby for travel after the salmonella bout was a Mexican doctor.
So why didn’t they contact the Mexican Navy to bail them out?
He’s not unskilled or inexperienced.
Those same costs would have been incurred regardless, or at least most of it.
You are correct. I still think that adults should not take unnecessary chances with 1-year-olds. But that's just me.
Properly prepared and trained this kind of trip is less risky then living in chicago
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Q: What do you call four Mexicans in a leaky boat?
A: Quatro sinko.
Now there's a high bar to hurdle, LOL!
This couple was not unskilled and the father was a Coast Guard-licensed captain.
How hard is it the day and time of the interweb to get the facts?
Whats unnecessary? Perhaps we shouldn’t go to the mall. Just think of the risk of a car accident. Going camping, HECK NO! Thats dangerous.
Fishing? That involves knives, hooks, and scary fish.
Too late. I’ve already been corrected. You snooze, you lose.
The boat took in water 600 mi. into a 30,000 mi. trip circumnavigating the globe, and the dad didn’t even know who to fix a freakin’ leak. USCG-trained my ass (maybe so, but those were just classes that any hobby skipper island-hopper can take and get a little diploma for — I’m a USCG Base San Juan brat)....
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Going to the mall, driving a car, camping, fishing, taking a one-year-old on a tiny boat across the Pacific Ocean.
Yep, all the same level of danger in my book.
People do this kind of stuff all the time and most do it with little issue. Properly equipped and trained the trip is not that risky.
Maybe he should have tried stuffing a baby pacifier in the hole?
You're right. I mean, what could go wrong?
There was a retired coast guard guy here in Tampa that put his sail boat into the river to test the engine. Engine didn’t work.
He didn’t have an anchor, sails, or a radio on his boat. He floated down the river and into Tampa Bay. Then he floated all the way across the bay. He couldn’t radio anyone, or even signal anyone because he didn’t have flares either.
Fortunately his sail boat washed up on the beach at the very southern tip on the other side of the bay. He came quite close to drifting out into the gulf.
Well you could get eaten by a giant squid.
Call it a training exercise. I’d rather have the government pay for this then for some folks to go on vacation again and again and again ....
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