On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:02:16 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

On 6/12/2010 8:15 PM, Lobby Dosser wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Dave In Texas wrote:

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Dave in Houston

It remains to be seen whether she ASKED to be rescued.

She may be like the 101st Airborne at Bastonge when George Patton
drove up: "Who invited you to the party?"


She lit off her emergency beacons. That is Asking. If you say
'Nevermind!' when rescuers shows up they tend to get really honked!

Did she light them off or did they light themselves off? They are
designed to self-activate in an emergency you know.

It was my understanding that these particular beacons were manual. Others
would have been activated automatically by water contact. This is one of the
reasons her parents believed that she was OK.