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A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
From: Peter Fogg
Date: 2007 Apr 20, 16:53 +1000
'Mr Hall said crews returned to the boat on Friday morning, around 80 nautical miles off Townsville, to check if anyone was trapped inside. He said they retrieved the boat's GPS system to analyse data for clues to the mysterious disappearance of the crew. "That will now enable us to track backwards where this yacht has actually been in the last few days, and we're hoping that can pinpoint the search area for the missing crew," he said.'
Of course they could do as much from a well-kept log recorded on paper, which would have stopped when the crew disappeared, but it sounds as thought nobody expects to find as much these days.
'Meteorologists have ruled out the possibility a freak wave swept the three men overboard. "There was no evidence of a freak wave occurring in that area [in that time]," said Greg Connor, from the Townsville Bureau of Meteorology. "Weather conditions were relatively good." Mr Connor said no unusual weather was recorded in the area between Sunday and Wednesday. "There were quite strong trade winds south-easterlies at 20 knots but nothing that should have caused concern," he said. '
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