Sounds like a nut to me.


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"Steve" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:39:19 -0500, Larry wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in news:45a7776b$0$9653
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If you are going blue water, ask yourself how you would handle this
situation in your boat and then prepare mentally and physically.



Roger, do you know the state of the EPIRB? Was it ever found and, if so,
was its battery dead but the EPRIB operational? We carry the Internal GPS
ACR Globalfix 406 Cat II, manual deployed in our ditch bag. (Model
RLB-35)
It sends its own fix to the overhead birds.

I'm interested as it seems he got no response from his EPRIB emergency
beacon. Did anyone hear it? Any information anyone has on the EPIRB
response is most important to all of us.

It would be hard to believe that nothing was received from such an EPIRB.
This one is rated for a continuous output for 48 hours from activation.
That would be pretty hard to ignore.

Everyone sailing outside needs to get this model with its own GPS. As you
can see from his video, the boat wasn't going to have a working GPS to
feed
data to an EPIRB externally. Yeah, it's expensive. What price is life?

Hope yours never activates.....or ours.

His EPIRB was heard. Here's the story of his rescue:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/expediti...-05-09-26.html

and here's more about him:

http://www.dommee.co.uk/pgs/whoisdom...s-dom-mee.html

He's quite a character.

Steve