[Moderator's Note: Content unaltered. Excessive quoting (i.e. headers/footers/sig lines/comments from previous posts, etc.) have been removed. Please edit quoted material in addition to removing header/trailers when replying to posts.] My first response to this topic appears to got lost, so I try it again. Even if you don't see a vessel in distress and just pick up the call for help you may be the link between Search and Rescue and the victim. Their call is maybe to weak to be picked up by other vessels or the Coast Guard. You are the only one close enough to hear them. What can you do? Relay their distress call. There is a radio procedure for this, called "Mayday Relay" That's the stuff they teach you in classes required to get the operators certificate (required in Canada to operate a VHF radio). The study manual of this class (for self study) is online and contains a lot of "How to do's" http://www.vmrs.org/training/ric23.pdf Ulli > Don't sell yourself too short. You may be the one who sees the > accident in the first place, and might be able to save precious minutes > or hours by being the one who alerts the USCG or other vessels nearby > who may come to the boaters' aid. > > Shawn > > --- Robert Brubaker <rbrub_at_earthlink.net> wrote: > > Odd thing is if there were a boating accident other than another > > kayaker > > or other small boat, I probably would not be of much use in providing > > aid other than organizing and providing limited buoyancy to a few > > swimmers or first aid. Ulli Hoeger Dept. Physiology and Biophysics Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H 4H7 Nova Scotia, Canada Phone: INT 902 494 2673 Fax: INT 902 494 1685 Phone 2: 902 497 4045 *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 12 2002 - 12:34:12 PDT
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