Larry wrote:
"Armond Perretta" wrote ...

Further, when was the last time the USCG ignored a distress call,
even when it might be bogus?

http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/1999/M99_2_16.pdf

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m..._5/ai_61555336

http://www.apg.army.mil/SIBO/wgtkwya.htm#NTSB

Good one, Larry. I remembered the "Morning Dew" incident right after I hit
"Send." I am hardly in a position to assign blame in the "Morning Dew"
case, except to suggest that, based on my experiences transiting Winyah Bay
and the Winyah Bay Entrance in several instances, the operator of "Morning
Dew" was an accident seeking a location. However the USCG error was not a
policy error, which is what was suggested by the original poster The watch
stander at USCG Charleston committed errors albeit in circumstances where
errors were easy to commit. The yachtsman committed errors in piloting, and
then definitely compounded his original errors further along the way.