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Report: $663,000 cost to save US family off Mexico coast (and could go higher)
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Posted on 04/12/2014 5:51:23 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
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?
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:24:17 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: Jeff Chandler
He’s not unskilled or inexperienced.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:24:46 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: RoosterRedux
Those same costs would have been incurred regardless, or at least most of it.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:25:24 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: driftdiver
Hes not unskilled or inexperienced.You are correct. I still think that adults should not take unnecessary chances with 1-year-olds. But that's just me.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:26:12 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Properly prepared and trained this kind of trip is less risky then living in chicago
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:26:26 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
So why didnt they contact the Mexican Navy to bail them out?.
Q: What do you call four Mexicans in a leaky boat?
A: Quatro sinko.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:27:35 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: driftdiver
this kind of trip is less risky then living in chicagoNow there's a high bar to hurdle, LOL!
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:28:36 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Jeff Chandler
unskilled coupleThis 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?
To: Jeff Chandler
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.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:29:32 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: RoosterRedux
Too late. I’ve already been corrected. You snooze, you lose.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:29:45 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Jeff Chandler; driftdiver
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)....
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:30:28 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:31:05 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: driftdiver
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.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:31:43 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:31:47 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD; RoosterRedux; driftdiver
The boat took in water 600 mi. into a 30,000 mi. trip circumnavigating the globe, and the dad didnt even know who to fix a freakin leak.Maybe he should have tried stuffing a baby pacifier in the hole?
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:33:45 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: driftdiver
Properly equipped and trained the trip is not that risky.You're right. I mean, what could go wrong?
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:34:38 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
To: Jeff Chandler
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:35:42 PM PDT
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
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.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:35:50 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Jeff Chandler
Well you could get eaten by a giant squid.
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posted on
04/12/2014 6:36:49 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD
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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