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I meant "1970s" probably late 70s.

Bill

On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 09:07, Bill Lionheart  wrote:
>
> I read the book Survive the Savage Sea in the 1970 when it came out. I
> didnt read the book by the son though. It was very influential on my
> thinking about sea survival and voyaging by small boat at the time,
> even though it was many decades before I bought my own blue water
> cruiser. It says in the BBC article he fired up his radio and sent an
> SOS. I don't remember them having a suitable radio. At the time they
> might have had a 500kHz life boat unit, a 2182kHz "call buoy" or an HF
>  ham rig, Marine MF/HF rigs were huge at that time and used loads of
> power so it is unlikely they had one. The nearest to an EPIRB was a
> 121.5 aeronautical beacon which relied on line of sight to a plane.
>
>  I seem to remember he threw a sextant and a chart in the boat before
> they sank, and a knife which was the most crucial thing to their
> survival.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2020 at 03:48, Frank Reed  wrote:
> >
> > Here's a story of a schooner in the Pacific sailing from the Galapagos to 
the Marquesas that was sunk by a killer whale:
> > https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-how-to-survive-being-shipwrecked-by-whales
> >
> > They all survived in a little dinghy, and there's a point where they were 
able to estimate their latitude by sighting Polaris (not much detail in the 
article but you get the idea). As I started into the article, I was waiting 
for the part about the EPIRB but then in the fifth paragraph I realized why 
there was no EPIRB. The article is a good read by itself, and it's such a low 
key advert that I find myself interested in buying and reading the book on 
which it's based.
> >
> > Frank Reed
> >
> > 

   

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