Sailing the South Pacific, a crew from Muskego, Wisconsin was in the right place at the right time to rescue a group whose boat was reportedly sunk by a whale.
What would you do if you were sailing in the South Pacific, thousands of miles from land, and your boat sank?"Can’t see much here, but this is S/V Rolling Stones," Mark Moriarty said in video of the rescue effort. "We’ve ventured off our normal course to go rescue a boat. We have four people in a small life raft and a dinghy."It happened around 10 p.m. on March 13. Capt.
"We didn’t have to change course too much, because everyone’s leaving Galapagos or Panama and making their way west," Stone said. "They were maybe a half of a degree south of us, so we veered south more and went right up to them.""We let them aboard anyway," Moriarty said.to the Galapagos is nearly 3,000 miles.
After S/V Raindancer sank, its crew used their emergency beacon and satellite comms to send their position."They were able to reach their emergency contacts and let them know to spread the word as quickly as possible," Geoff said.
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