Lost at sea for 8 days

Monello

Smarter than the average bear
PREMO Member
Navy Times reports the U.S. Navy rescued three fishermen Tuesday who were adrift on a boat in the Pacific Ocean for eight days.The men were reported missing Feb. 12 after failing to return from a fishing trip in Micronesia. The men had food and water aboard their 19-foot skiff, but no safety equipment or radios.
The U.S. Coast Guard based in Guam searched for the men for several days before calling in a Navy team from Japan, who used a P-8A Poseidon plane equipped with advanced radar to find the boat within three hours.

P-8
 

glhs837

Power with Control
Yeah man, Sooooooooo much effort expended over three years to get that damn SAR kit approved. Nice to see it get used.
 

RoseRed

American Beauty
PREMO Member
A bit off topic, I read about this the other day...

The date was November 12th, 1963. A crew member aboard the Gulf Lion, a tanker, spotted a small boat in the distance. In it was a man, waving frantically. The ship changed course and headed to the tiny boat and saw its single live occupant, a middle-aged man. Also in the dinghy was a seven year old girl – not alive, sadly.

The man told his rescuers that his name was Julian Harvey. He had been the captain of a sixty foot sailboat, the Bluebelle.

He explained that the boat had been chartered for a vacation trip by an optometrist from Wisconsin called Arthur Duperrault. He had had rented the craft and its crew from Bahia Mar in Fort Lauderdale intending to go on a week long cruise to the Bahamas with his wife, son and two daughters. The other crew member, in addition to the captain Harvey, was his wife Mary.
http://jaquo.com/florida-murder/
 

officeguy

Well-Known Member
Considering all the flotsam that drifts on the ocean, finding a 19ft skiff using radar is quite an accomplishment.
 

glhs837

Power with Control
Considering all the flotsam that drifts on the ocean, finding a 19ft skiff using radar is quite an accomplishment.

The radars you need to spot a subs periscope are pretty good radars.

https://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/apy10

The P-8A radar is also the only system of its type to provide a dedicated short exposure submarine periscope detection mode as well as ultra-high resolution imaging modes for maritime and overland operations, delivering uncompromised performance in every operational environment.
And just wait til Triton gets going.
 
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