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Countries paying teen's rescue cost defend sea law
Associated Press ^ | Jun 17, 2010 6:40 AM | TANALEE SMITH

Posted on 06/17/2010 5:27:33 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW

The International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea was first adopted in 1914 in response to the Titanic disaster. Along with mandating the number of lifeboats and the notification of a ship's routes, it also dictates that any ship in the area of a distress call will divert to assist that ship.

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To: IYAS9YAS

Thanks. I think the last is the best.


181 posted on 06/18/2010 5:06:25 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: DJ MacWoW; GatorGirl

I don’t think she knew what she was getting into either. Not the Southern Ocean in winter. And it’s true, she’s no sailor in the sense that after two days her decks were still cluttered with foot traps and her rig was still trailing astern. No attempt at self help, cutting away or jury rigging, which is Big League Sailing 101. (If you go into the Southern Ocean at any time of year, you are in Big League Sailing by default.)


182 posted on 06/18/2010 5:10:34 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Reading the linked forum at reply 150, it appears that she was getting all of her sailing directions from dad via long range comms. He was doing the weather work and giving her the next waypoint to put into the GPS/autopilot.

When the mast went down and comms were gone she was lost and didn’t have a plan. Her only “if anything goes wrong” plan was “turn on the EPIRB.”

That is why the ocean sailing community universally scorns this misbegotten effort.

If you try to be the youngest ever to scale Everest, and you do in in January because May will be too late, don’t expect praise when you activate your EPIRB at 24,000 feet in a blizzard, expecting a rescue effort to be mounted.

That’s what this family did, they sent Abbey up Everest in winter, because spring was too late for the “youngest ever” record.


183 posted on 06/18/2010 5:15:44 AM PDT by Travis McGee (---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
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To: Travis McGee

Since I don’t sail, I didn’t understand everything the sailing forum was saying but I did get that once communication with home was gone, she was done. She didn’t know how to do anything without all the tech equipment. And she dangerously left the deck littered.


184 posted on 06/18/2010 5:22:05 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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