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Re: Does "Lifeboat Navigation" exist today?
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2015 Jun 17, 18:19 -0700
From: Hewitt Schlereth
Date: 2015 Jun 17, 18:19 -0700
Stan, thank you.
Hewitt
Steve Callahan, 76 days, "Adrift"?
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From: Hewitt Schlereth <NoReply_Schlereth@fer3.com>
To: slk1000 <slk1000---.com>
Sent: Wed, Jun 17, 2015 7:59 pm
Subject: [NavList] Re: Does "Lifeboat Navigation" exist today?
Next to EPIRBs, I'd put hand-held VHFs. I've read at least two raft survival stories which relate being passed within a mile or two by half a dozen ships. (the Bailey's was one - something like 117 days at sea. The other was two months or so by a young man whose name I cannot recall).