maby
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If you can delay it long enough to either fix the fault yourself, or for rescue to arrive, it ceases to be inevitable!
Breaking down near headlands / cliffs
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If you can delay it long enough to either fix the fault yourself, or for rescue to arrive, it ceases to be inevitable!
vas
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+1
I was also shocked on the default settings of autoroute guidance. But you can simply adjust the distance from land as well as the min depth. Mind if you overdo it to make you feel OK navigating in open areas and nearby islands, it wont resolve routes near ports and other tight setups. Not a big deal, but annoying!
V.
longjohnsilver
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Pete, how are your climbing skills?
Most of the headlands around Altea have either rope ladders or climbing rope trailing down. Wait till you hit and then grab the nearest rope and start climbing:encouragement:
Most of the headlands around Altea have either rope ladders or climbing rope trailing down. Wait till you hit and then grab the nearest rope and start climbing:encouragement:
petem
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longjohnsilver
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No, not kidding, there’s quite a few on the headland between Campomanes and Calpe. We often get very close in our small boat, I’m guessing they’ve been left behind by climbers, there are quite a few active on the cliffs thereabouts. But why they leave them behind is anyone’s guess. There are also a few small buildings, how they got the materials there is beyond me. And why.
jrudge
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Distance from land was set as MAX or whatever the label was.
The depth did not help as most of Mallorca is really deep ( 30m ) right next to the cliffs!
Other than that it was an amazing system
Portofino
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They are fixed ropes called via Ferrata . All over the Alps ......and other climbing places like cliff .
They not really a U.K. thing .National parks / environmental issues etc etc .
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_ferrata
You need a sling and a couple of carabiner to use them best .
Divemaster1
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Mayday any time a person or your vessel is in immediate danger ....
PAN PAN is used when you declare that you have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not represent an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself.....
Last thing you want is to escalate a PAN PAN to Mayday with cliffs potentially blocking the signal ...
1) Mayday
2) Anchor out (or anything that can slow down drift)
3) Prepare for worst case scenario (don lifejeckets, get flares out and readily accessible etc.) and set off flare as appropriate for the conditions
4) Attempt repairs
5) Abandon Vessel whilst still "safe" to do so ... ie' before cliffs represent bigger risk to POB than abandoning does ... (remember grab-bag which you of course have available for such a case...)
PAN PAN is used when you declare that you have a situation that is urgent, but for the time being, does not represent an immediate danger to anyone's life or to the vessel itself.....
Last thing you want is to escalate a PAN PAN to Mayday with cliffs potentially blocking the signal ...
1) Mayday
2) Anchor out (or anything that can slow down drift)
3) Prepare for worst case scenario (don lifejeckets, get flares out and readily accessible etc.) and set off flare as appropriate for the conditions
4) Attempt repairs
5) Abandon Vessel whilst still "safe" to do so ... ie' before cliffs represent bigger risk to POB than abandoning does ... (remember grab-bag which you of course have available for such a case...)
Aardee
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Really?? - By that stage you should be off the boat and in the tender/ liferaft if you couldn't either deploy the anchor or resolve the problem.
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Deleted User YDKXO
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It begs the question if your boat is being blown on to some rocks, is it better to be smashed against the rocks in your boat or in a liferaft? Which would give you more survival time? I tend to think that staying on your boat might give you a while longer?
petem
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I agree Mike. Conventional wisdom I think is that you should be climbing up from your sinking boat into your liferaft.