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Boater Tragedy in Belieze
Thread on stranded boat rescue progress (or deliberate lack thereof):
http://www.renegade-cruisers.org/bb/...pic.php?t=1656 The owner/victim's "after action report:" http://www.renegade-cruisers.org/bb/...c8e67c53289baf Cruising in Belize, anyone? Al s/v Persephone |
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Albert P. Belle Isle wrote in
: http://www.renegade-cruisers.org/bb/...postdays=0&pos torder=asc&start=90&sid=0fbbb9b92f80c705b6c8e67c53 289baf Ah, web browser based text messaging....Sure makes you appreciate usenet, doesn't it. I have a ham radio friend in Belize who is a marine scientist. I've forwarded the news to him to alert them. They have several power boats used in the research on those reefs. He's lived there for years..... -- Larry You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in chalk. |
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Good on ya Larry!
"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message ... Albert P. Belle Isle wrote in : http://www.renegade-cruisers.org/bb/...postdays=0&pos torder=asc&start=90&sid=0fbbb9b92f80c705b6c8e67c53 289baf Ah, web browser based text messaging....Sure makes you appreciate usenet, doesn't it. I have a ham radio friend in Belize who is a marine scientist. I've forwarded the news to him to alert them. They have several power boats used in the research on those reefs. He's lived there for years..... -- Larry You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and you're outlined in chalk. |
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Albert P. Belle Isle wrote in
: Thread on stranded boat rescue progress (or deliberate lack thereof): http://www.renegade-cruisers.org/bb/...pic.php?t=1656 The owner/victim's "after action report:" http://www.renegade-cruisers.org/bb/...656&postdays=0 &pos torder=asc&start=90&sid=0fbbb9b92f80c705b6c8e67c53 289baf Cruising in Belize, anyone? Al s/v Persephone I just got back from spending most of this cruising season in Belize, which is where I've spent the majority of the past 3 seasons. I'm also a network controller for the NW Caribbean cruiser's net which meets at 1400 UTC on 8188.0 Mhz USB on a daily basis. I never heard anything about this, and based upon an e-mail inquiry to some of the other controllers, they didn't either. The only potnetial reference that we have to this is a mention by S/V Conch Quest on June 22 that stated that "2 boats were wrecked on the reef near Xcalak." I know of at least 5 boats that passed between San Pedro, Belize (Ambergris Cay) and Xcalak during that period and none of them reported anyone requesting any assistance via the VHF or SSB. I will also state that during my 3 years of cruising in Belize that I have had very few fishermen or otherwise approach that boat. I certainly can't make the same statement for other Caribbean islands. I have never been asked for "whisky, pot, cocaine, or cigarettes." At most I've been asked if I wanted to buy fish. Belizians are some of the most respectful people that I've met anywhere in all of the Caribbean. I also wonder who the Belizian's were that denied the Mexican's from assisting Choupique off of the reef. Belize has no one patrolling their reefs or borders. There are only customs and immigration staff at San Pedro and they don't have any boats. The area that he descibes is rather remote, being less than a mile from the Mexican border and about 15 miles from San Pedro. I can't imagine who would be there to keep the Mexican's from assisting and to monitor the situation without offering to provide assitance. The bottom line is that something is wrong with this report. Perhaps this happened, but I suspect that this is far from the full and correct story. -- Geoff |
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2005 08:39:21 -0500, Geoff Schultz
The bottom line is that something is wrong with this report. Perhaps this happened, but I suspect that this is far from the full and correct story. -- Geoff Thanks for your comments and knowledge about this country. I have heard good things about Belize and Costa Rica, middling things about Honduras and horrible things about Guatamala. My impression is that Belize is (for the area) a quite poor but not overly corrupt place that is trying to capture a bigger share of the scanty cruiser/tourism market, and this report of vulture-like behaviour is disturbing. Let's hope a fuller story emerges. In my book, one of the worst things you can do is to deny aid to a seaman in distress. Personally, I have no problem condemning an entire country based on the actions of a few of its citizens: there are pleasant and law-abiding places to go aplenty still, and life is too short to worry overmuch about getting robbed on a reef because officialdom is too corrupt to do their duty. R. |
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