- Quick Menu
-
|
04-21-2009
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Auckland New Zealand
Posts: 1,809
Rep Power: 9
|
|
|
Unnecessary rescue efforts . . . . . again
Another case of premature action on an EPIRB.
A yacht some 200 nm north of New Zealand set off an EPIRB. The local SAR despatched an Orion search aircraft as well as diverting a Mearsk cargo vessel to began the hunt for them.
I heard a report on local radio today that said the vessel had experienced bad weather and had "damaged their sails" so they decided to set off the alarm. It has apparently been further confirmed that the vessel was otherwise undamaged and had enough diesel on board to motor all the way to NZ.
Go figure.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
__________________
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
Arthur C. Clarke
|
04-21-2009
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New York
Posts: 4,203
Rep Power: 12
|
|
Main Entry: panic  !pa-nik
Pronunciation: \ ˈpa-nik \
Function: adjective
Etymology: French panique, from Greek panikos, literally, of Pan, from Pan
Date: 1603
Results
| 1. | 1 of, relating to, or resembling the mental or emotional state believed induced by the god Pan - panic fear
| | 2. | 2 of, relating to, or arising from a panic - panic buying
| | 3. | 3 of or relating to the god Pan |
Most people don't know the origins of a Pan-Pan Radio call either!
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Never Forgotten
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
04-21-2009
|
 |
Telstar 28
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 43,315
Rep Power: 11
|
|
|
The captain and crew should be ashamed and forced to pay for the cost of diverting the Maersk cargo ship and the Orion SAR aircraft's time.
__________________
Sailingdog
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
If you're new to the Sailnet Forums... please read this To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts..
Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
|
04-21-2009
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Toronto
Posts: 5,490
Rep Power: 7
|
|
|
At best, that is a PAN-PAN, although "damaged sails" shows a lack of seamanship in my view, because if your mast is still secure, you can rig almost any scrap of sail to get 200 miles...it's just going to take three days!
As far as I am concerned, you activate the EPIRB by chucking it on a line from the liferaft after your boat's sunk OR if someone's smashed their skull or had a heart attack or something. Imminent danger to life...not "my boat's no longer convenient".
__________________
Can't sleep? Read my countdown to voyaging blog @
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
|
04-21-2009
|
|
Telstar 28
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 43,315
Rep Power: 11
|
|
Unfortunately, too many sailors today, see inconvenience as a life-threatening event...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Valiente
At best, that is a PAN-PAN, although "damaged sails" shows a lack of seamanship in my view, because if your mast is still secure, you can rig almost any scrap of sail to get 200 miles...it's just going to take three days!
As far as I am concerned, you activate the EPIRB by chucking it on a line from the liferaft after your boat's sunk OR if someone's smashed their skull or had a heart attack or something. Imminent danger to life...not "my boat's no longer convenient".
|
__________________
Sailingdog
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
If you're new to the Sailnet Forums... please read this To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts..
Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
|
04-21-2009
|
 |
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 991
Rep Power: 4
|
|
|
It's easy to act tough when you are at a desk typing on a computer! Perhaps the people feared for their lives, one does not know the circumstances.
|
04-21-2009
|
 |
Super Fuzzy Moderator
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Sydney Australia
Posts: 9,814
Rep Power: 8
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by tager
It's easy to act tough when you are at a desk typing on a computer! Perhaps the people feared for their lives, one does not know the circumstances.
|
True enough I guess but an Epirb is an electronic SOS.
Frightened you may be, yea even scared witless, but it's not a good enough reason to issue a May Day. A Pan Pan yes , but not a May Day.
Valiente is quite correct, as you step off your boat into your life raft , that is the time to set off the Epirb.
If you are going to call in the heavy duty support network you need to be in real danger and I'm sorry but when you have a mast and a scrap of cloth you are not in a hopeless situation. (Presuming a reasonable amount of searoom.)
__________________
..
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. Julius Henry Marx.
..
|
04-21-2009
|
|
Telstar 28
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: New England
Posts: 43,315
Rep Power: 11
|
|
They had enough fuel to get to a safe harbor. They had not been knocked down. They had not been holed or taking on water. AFAIK, there was nothing wrong with their boat except the sails were damaged. No was was injured AFAIK. Exactly what were they pulling the EPIRB trigger for???
The only thing an EPIRB should be used for is the equivalent of a MAYDAY...not a PAN PAN, not a SECURITÉ. If they can't take a bit of heavy weather... maybe they shouldn't be out there.
Quote:
Originally Posted by tager
It's easy to act tough when you are at a desk typing on a computer! Perhaps the people feared for their lives, one does not know the circumstances.
|
__________________
Sailingdog
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
If you're new to the Sailnet Forums... please read this To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts..
Still—DON'T READ THAT POST AGAIN.
|
04-22-2009
|
|
Senior Member
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Auckland New Zealand
Posts: 1,809
Rep Power: 9
|
|
|
Heard on our local radio station this morning that the three people aboard had been air-lifted off the vessel - don't know what the fate of the vessel was - hope it was scuttled.
Purely speculation but I think the folks on board had "had enough", the helo was out there so they bailed. If I hear anything to the contrary, I'll post it here.
__________________
To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.
__________________
"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
Arthur C. Clarke
|
04-22-2009
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 31
Rep Power: 0
|
|
|
They need to harden up and read Miles and Beryl Smeeton's 'Once is Enough'
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
|
|
|
| Thread Tools |
Search this Thread |
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is On
|
|
|
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:14 PM.
|
Connect with Facebook
