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- From: burati@apollo.hp.com (Michael Burati)
- Subject: Re: Solo Sailor Missing
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:40:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.145902.27644@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> legacy@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (wayne.m.simpson) writes:
- >>A brief report in the Washington Post this past Sunday noted that Mike Plant
- >>and his boat Coyote were missing in the North Atlantic. He was in transit from
- >>New York to Les Sables d'Olonne France in preparation for the start of the
- >>Vendee Globe Challenge race. Does anyone have any more information on this?
- >>
- > Shouldn't Coyote have an Argos transponder? I would think that this
- >would have given search crews a good place to start looking. If Coyote
- >had gone down, the Argos would have stopped transmitting, and the life
- >raft with 406 MHz Epirb should have automatically deployed. I doubt
- >that the weak, unregistered signal described could have been from
- >Coyote. I would think that a registered, functioning Epirb was required
- >by the race rules, and Plant or his team would have seen to it.
-
- I read the Boston Globe article about this... I don't believe he had an Argos,
- just an EPIRB. The Canadian CG didn't forward the information on, because the
- signal was too weak to pinpoint the location, and the EPIRB they picked up was
- not registered. The USCG found out about Plant being overdue and about the
- unregistered EPIRB, then somehow Plant's family found the EPIRB# from the
- company that sold it to him and matched it up with the unregistered one that
- the Canadian CG had heard. Personally, I would hope someone with Mike's
- experience would have registered it, but I also wouldn't put it past the FCC
- to not have processed the application yet. I used their order line to get
- a station license for my VHF last year (in July). They finally sent me the
- order form in October, then took another several months after I sent it in to
- get the license back to me.
-
- ..Mike
- burati@apollo.hp.com
-