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Is it bad that my first thought was being sad for the dogs having to be out there so long unwillingly?
The dogs looked happy. Dogs didn't know they were lost as apparently they were well fed.
The question raised in this thread has been, where was "out there". Many of us suspect it was not floating around somewhere in the vast reaches of the Western Pacific. This is because the women and the dogs look none the worse for wear, and the bottom growth line looks tilted.
I wonder if the one with the sailing experience fed this crazy story to the other lady who had never been on a boat just to keep their little trip going longer. I've sent a distress signal every day! We don't have an EPIRB! Those big fish that are swimming by the boat are really sharks! We are most likely going to die tomorrow so now it's time to seek help!
Maybe the non-sailor believed all of this so the "sailor" had to try to keep the incredulous story going even after their rescue.
At least it was a fifty foot boat and they didn't take a dinghy out in the ocean to try to make it to some island. Because that would make them mentally ill.
Teenagers are monitored when they attempt to sail around the world and they constantly check in. You can't compare the situations.
These two ladies are dumber then f..k.
I blame their parents. They should have brought them on exotic vacations etc when they were children so they wouldn't be this desperate as adults. And they seem almost as mentally ill as people that would attempt a big trip in a dinghy. Their decision was not a smart or mature one.
They are either the dumbest and luckiest sailors ever OR it's an attempt to get a book / movie deal.
The USCG discovered that they did have a fully functional emergency beacon on board. Had they activated it it would have communicated with satelites immediately and they would have been found very quickly. Also apparently there was no huge storm in May near Hawaii like they said---but how did they get to where they were?
Mother claims to have called USCG with missing report but there is no record of the call. Float plan was apparently vague at best. Polynesian looking woman, Tasha, had never sailed before. Jennifer was reported here as a known "character" to deep water sailors.
Here's the recent news: Lost-at-sea saga marked by inconsistencies, changing stories | AP news | The Journal Gazette
The first pictures on network TV tripped my BS detector. People like this give sailing a bad name.
So the mother is in on the scam? I was wondering about her claim that Hawaii coast guard searched for them. If anyone knows how to find a distressed boat off their coast, it would be Hawaiian coast guard, I would think. And how likely is it that the mom reported them, but didn't call back to follow up, or didn't follow up when she received no response?
Bogus. It's all bogus.
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