Huge wrote:
On 2013-03-12, SteveW wrote:
On 11/03/2013 19:20, dennis@home wrote:


However it costs a lot more to send a life boat out an a search and
rescue mission than it does to send a helicopter to a known location
where there is probably an ambulance with flashing blue lights on it
attending to the victim.

I would think that many lifeboat launches are rescue missions to a
"known" location, navigation systems being so good these days.

IIRC, VHF marine radios have to have built-in GPS these days so the lost
dumb-****s can just press the Big Red "Help Me" Button.

DSC rather than VHF.


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