I apologize if you've seen this query anywhere else, but I have a
tough work assignment and am trying to reach as many people as
possible. I'm a freelance writer searching on behalf of Popular
Science for first-person accounts of dramatically frustrating battery
failures in portable electronics--cell or sat phones, CBs, laptops,
GPS monitors, etc. We thought one category might be people lost at sea
because a battery died. To qualify, the battery must have died of
"natural" causes (as in, not exploding) in some portable electronic
device (as in, not the boat's battery) at an extremely inopportune
moment. If you have a story like that, please email me directly at
jrm@naswxxxorg (replace the triply repeated letter with a period). My
deadline is this Monday March 22nd, but I'll take them up to a few
days after. Please feel free to forward this to friends and
colleagues.

Thanks,
JR