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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 14:36:00 EST
> I see you've read the owner's son's website. Your information is
> incorrect. The owner could not be "forced" to abandon his boat
> against his will. And there were no penalties should he have decided
> to stay.
It is clear you have a sense of personal offence ass about the skipper.
My information comes from more than multiple sources.
Here are just two accounts from the USCG.
The account of the rescue swimmer of the USCG, Dave Moore:
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Moore, who is now a firefighter and paramedic in Santa Rosa, Calif.,
jumped 15 feet from a Coast Guard helicopter into 30-foot waves.
''The first time I swam to the sailboat, I couldn't get to it,'' he
remembered. ''I was blown back. The wind was blowing about 60 mph.
''I was nervous that things would go wrong,'' said Moore, who was 25 at
the time. ''I was nervous that I would never get back.''
Moore climbed back in the basket to be hoisted up for another jump. This
time he succeeded, urging the three on the boat to jump off into the
high dark waves, and carrying them to safety.
Satori's captain refused to leave the boat, saying he had sailed through
hurricanes before, Moore said. So Moore declared the voyage ''manifestly
unsafe,'' meaning he could force the captain to abandon ship.
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Herb Summers was a Coast Guard Petty Officer second class, working on
the 205 foot Cutter, the Tamaroa, based at the New Castle Coast Guard
Station:
"It was too rough to drop a line to the Sartori," said Summers. "The
women (Karen Stimpson and Sue Bylander) wanted off the boat. We made a
decision that the Sartori was on an unsafe voyage and determined that
they would have to leave.
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