It’s not often you see two rescues facilitated by ham radio on the same day.
A 23-year-old Florida man was rescued by an Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue (AMVER) system participating container ship as the sailor’s boat was in distress 700 miles off the coast of San Diego, California last Friday. Amver, sponsored by the United States Coast Guard, is a unique, computer-based, and voluntary global ship reporting system used worldwide by search and rescue authorities to arrange for assistance to persons in distress at sea.
The lone sailor, on a journey aboard his 41 foot sloop from San Diego to Hawaii, lost all steering in a storm and was in danger of capsizing. He quickly notified HAM radio operators of his situation and activated his emergency radio beacon. The HAM radio operators passed the distress information along to the United States Coast Guard Eleventh District Rescue Coordination Center…
SOURCE: Sail-World.com
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