Thanks for the summary John, About 7:30am Monday 12th February the New Zealand rescue authorities decided to resume the search with two fixed wing aircraft. Conditions are described as ideal for the search. Because Andrew's PFD was not in the boat there is hope that he is wearing it and is floating and visible. >From the start the searchers calculated for Andrews drift and based their search on his likely position but they have also searched a much wider area as well. Water temperature is between 15 to 18 degrees Centigrade. NOAA forecasts swell of 1m to 2m and 10 second period, wind 10 to 15 knots. This has been pretty stable during the last few days. When the boat was first spotted from the air it appeared to have the cockpit cover visible. It was known that one of the supporting levers had been damaged. The hatch opening to the rear of the boat is inside the cockpit, not on the deck and the hatch cover is missing. Give my regards to Dave he is well connected in the Australian kayaking world and hopefully can provide more information. Peter *************************************************************************** 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 Sun Feb 11 2007 - 13:39:52 PST
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:31:22 PDT