[Rapscallion]

Perhaps it really is just a boat in distress, but is it possible it’s a boat spotting something suspicious? Trying to get out some comms that someone should come and inspect?

Thank you for not being cynical. Someone out there made a distress call. The missing aircraft is certainly lost by this time but, stranger things have happened in the history of people lost at sea and then recovered.

I pray.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “ The missing aircraft is certainly lost by this time” <<

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Lost to whom is the question.
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