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- From: dwl@watson.ibm.com (David W. Levine)
- Subject: Re: Solo Sailor Missing
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- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.045043.104609@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:50:43 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov18.023157.4425@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>
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- Keywords: Mike Plant
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- In article <1992Nov18.023157.4425@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu>,
- dbyrne@ldgo.columbia.edu (deirdre byrne) writes:
- |> This from the NY Times today (courtesy of Will Howard):
- |>
- |> "Four days of intensive searching have failed to turn up
- |> any signs of Mike Plant."
- |>
- |> A summary of the basic facts:
- |>
- |> |His departure was from New York on Oct 16.
- |> |
- |> |On Oct 27, the Canadian Coast Guard received a weak transmission
- |> |from his EPIRB.
- |> |
- |> |It was not until November 12 that the signal was linked
- |> |to Coyote.
- |> |
- |> |The search is being conducted in the area northeast of
- |> |Bermuda, with two USCG C-130 prop planes covering roughly 15000
- |> |square miles in the process.
- |> |
- |> |The US Navy is also expected to get involved in the search effort.
- |>
- |>
- |> This doesn't sound good to me.
- |>
- |>
- |> ------------------------------------------------------------------
- |> "There are more things in dbyrne@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu
- |> Heaven and Earth, Horatio, Deirdre Byrne
- |> than are dreamt of 202-A Oceanography
- |> in your philosophy." Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory
- |> Palisades, NY 10964
- |> Hamlet I, v, 166 (914) 359-2900 x545
- |>
-
- Further details, heard on WCBS (Yes, the radio, not very often you hear
- about sailing of any sort by radio) the navy's now using several of thier
- anti-submarine-warfare (ASW) planes to help in the search.
-
- From a little digging I've done, the weather looks to have been fairly
- un-interesting, with the exception of a couple of cold fronts which
- worked across the position the EPIRB report came in from at about the time
- it came in (Not terribly strong ones, either) That's not all that
- meaningful, if the EPRIRB triggering was seperated in time from the
- events that might have led to it, which isn't impossible if you consider
- damage that compromised the boat, but left it floating for a while. What
- would be surprising would be Mike getting caught surprised by this and
- not triggering the EPIRB in a controlled way, which should have yielded
- a strong signal, not the weak blip that was seen (heard? Detected?)
-
- David W. Levine -- dwl@watson.ibm.com -- IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
- -- My Opinions, IBM's hardware. --
- "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your
- aim" - George Santayana
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