"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

Frank Slootweg wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

SOSman wrote:

What if your travel plans go wrong? What if you break a leg out on the
trail? What will happen to you if nobody knows where to find you?
http://SendingOutAnSOS.com helps you develop a travel plan before you
set out. If you don't make it back by a pre-arranged date, we send an
SOS message containing your travel intentions to your loved ones (or
other contacts). Hopefully they will come to your rescue!

If one HAS "loved ones", what's to prevent doing the
"pre-arranging" with them? (WITHOUT any fee to some outside
agency?)

Well, these are *travel* groups, i.e. ones "loved ones" may not be
close by and possibly in a (quite) different timezone. For example for
us, from The Netherlands (aka "Holland") and travelling in Australia,
the distance is 16,000+ km and the time-difference is upto 10 hours. I
don't know about *your* loved ones, but ours don't appreciate phonecalls
in the middle of the night hearing were fine, nor having to arrange a
searchparty from 16,000km/10hours away, without any 'local' information
(i.e. which authority to call, their phonenumber, etc.).

Well, my relatives always have my itinerary, and I carry a
card with emergency notification numbers. If they need to
reach me, they can. Otherwise, if they don't hear from me
(or the police or a hospital, somewhere) they can assume I'm
okay, and will be in touch when I return. (And I doubt
whether anyone important to me would object to a call in the
middle of the night if it were a real emergency.)

Good if your method works for you, as long as you realize that it
won't work for everybody. For example your method depends on third
parties (police, hospital) to notify your relatives. What if you are
somewhere where no-one will find you if something happens to you? I.e.
your relatives get no message, so they assume you are OK, but in reality
you're not. Under these conditions, *you* must be able to raise the
alarm / notify the emergency services, and for that you need a
communication device, like the EPIRB (satelite safecty beacon) I
mentioned.