"Peter" wrote in message
news:Nvx3c.94061$PR3.1664348@attbi_s03...

A PLB or redundant VHF radios seem to me more likely to be effective than
the visual distress signals.


While the EPIRB is probably responsible for these people being alive, one
can't help wondering why it took over two hours to locate them just 2 miles
of Lanai (~10 miles off Maui.)

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/ar.../ln/ln05a.html


suds