Bob Carter wrote: > In the past couple months the coast guard has had three false searches > due to the SPOT (Personal satellite tracker) system. In each case it has > a combination of the limitations of the SPOT unit and human anxiety. > [snip] Each of the three parties searched for were found to be OK and > doing fine unaware they were missing. The coast guard is not happy about > this and I fear may be reluctant to search based on the SPOT system. This is not good news. The failure of a few makes a potentially very vital link possibly useless. Anybody know if the SPOT folks are on this problem? -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** 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 Sat Jul 19 2008 - 12:09:15 PDT
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