200 miles is well-within the combat radius of all the relevant helicopters that I am aware of to include commercial oil rig shuttle helicopters.
Ron Rogers ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My experience in time of need was just as dismal. I had to abandon ship 200 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. One crew member was recently retired USCG still under contract to New Orleans office. We had a sat phone on board so a call was placed to his office at 0430. A Falcon jet came out and over flew us. We indicated to the pilot that we had stabilized the boat but that we would not be able to maintain integrity when the northern front arrived within 18 hrs. He had to return to Corpus to refuel and would return. Prior to departing we asked what the plan was. Reply: You are too far out for helo rescue _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
