Hepkie » Maritime http://hepkie.com The smart way to find missing people. Wed, 18 May 2011 11:53:35 +0000 en hourly 1 Fantastic story! http://hepkie.com/maritime/maritime-cases/fantastic-story/ http://hepkie.com/maritime/maritime-cases/fantastic-story/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:32:08 +0000 Andreas http://hepkie.com/?p=863

The tiny vessel had been adrift for 50 days.

Miraculous rescue!

Yesterday three teenage boys were found at sea outside New Zealand after drifting 50 days in a small boat.

They managed to survive on rainwater, two coconuts and a seagull.

We cannot help but wonder if they had had cell phones…

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Teenage castaways, Filo Filo, Samuel Perez and Edward Nasau with the aluminium craft in which they spent 50 days adrift. Photo: Tai Fredricsen

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]]> http://hepkie.com/maritime/maritime-cases/fantastic-story/feed/ 0 INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION: summary of lessons learned http://hepkie.com/maritime/international-maritime-organization-summary-of-lessons-learned/ http://hepkie.com/maritime/international-maritime-organization-summary-of-lessons-learned/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:23:16 +0000 Fredrik http://resqu.hojt.se/?p=11 “Mobile phones are a common source of distress alerts for fishing and recreational vessels. A close relationship with mobile phone companies is essential to gain valuable data to assist in the location of distressed or missing persons. Associated with this problem is the need to have good working relationship with local public safety answering points, such as ‘911’ in North America, to ensure the rapid and accurate transfer of marine distress calls to the appropriate MRCC“ (Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre).

This quote comes from an overview of the 10th session of the North Atlantic Maritime Rescue Co-ordination Centre Meeting held at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 29 September to 3 October 2003.

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