The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoIs this man a magnet for accidents at sea?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square45fedilinkarrow-up1705arrow-down124
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minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·9 months agoSetting the meme of this aside, it’s nice that he didn’t just report it and fuck off. I’m curious how marine emergency calls work. Maybe I’ll look into it. Either way, it’s nice that it happened.
minus-squareJareeZy@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·9 months agoAfaik you have to respond if you’re the closest vessel.
minus-squarelonerangers1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoSo I need a dingy and the marine traffic app and to have an “accident” while a certain vessel would be imposed to save me? Then I get to do some yachting and chumming it up with gilbert grape and some <25 year old babes?
minus-squarelonerangers1@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agohttps://imgur.com/10lj5Nb
minus-squareEmpricorn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoYeah? Who enforces that? What happens if you just pretend you didn’t see the distress call? Has anyone ever had real consequences from doing this?
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minus-squarethis_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoMy radio started acting up after we left port and failed overnight while on the water… What do I do.
minus-squaredeur@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoGo back to port if theres no emergency, otherwise use your emergency rescue beacon or backup radio.
minus-squarethis_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoBut I’m already a day out and a day away. So …
minus-squarethemelm@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoI mean I doubt it. But if you’re in the ocean you probably have more of an incentive to keep that going since it could be your ass pretty easily. But I imagine big enough vessels are tracked by coast guards in lots of areas.
Setting the meme of this aside, it’s nice that he didn’t just report it and fuck off.
I’m curious how marine emergency calls work. Maybe I’ll look into it. Either way, it’s nice that it happened.
Afaik you have to respond if you’re the closest vessel.
So I need a dingy and the marine traffic app and to have an “accident” while a certain vessel would be imposed to save me? Then I get to do some yachting and chumming it up with gilbert grape and some <25 year old babes?
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https://imgur.com/10lj5Nb
Yeah? Who enforces that? What happens if you just pretend you didn’t see the distress call? Has anyone ever had real consequences from doing this?
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My radio started acting up after we left port and failed overnight while on the water… What do I do.
Go back to port if theres no emergency, otherwise use your emergency rescue beacon or backup radio.
But I’m already a day out and a day away. So …
I mean I doubt it. But if you’re in the ocean you probably have more of an incentive to keep that going since it could be your ass pretty easily.
But I imagine big enough vessels are tracked by coast guards in lots of areas.