restart the search for missing crew petition.

[tawhiri]

Done and forwarded

 

[snowleopard]

Let us hope they are still alive.

As a matter of interest what is the going rate for a young deckhand gambling their life for your company on an Atlantic crossing?

Or would it be an intern paying you? Or someone you found on crewseekers?

As it happens, the youngest crew member was my mate on an ocean passage. He is a tenacious and extremely capable individual. I'd happily trust my own life to his skills and judgement. Oh, he's a lovely chap too.

Your post is despicable, and suggests that the crew was less than capable.

You are happy to post this disgusting insinuation yet you know nothing. And are completely wrong.

An unwarranted attack on a perfectly reasonable post. It highlights the fact that young crew are paid very little but can end up paying a very high price, something few of them think about when they cast off.

 

[JumbleDuck]

So what does your survivability research tell you about the life expectancy of 4 fit guys, well equipped and supplied, in a liferaft in 60ºf temps?

20 hours, as the USCG seems to have concluded?

This makes interesting and depressing reading

http://doversolo.com/hypothermia.htm

Of course it's referring to people in the water, not in a liferaft, but there is quite a lot there about clothed people in the water. If you get completely wet at 15C you don't, it seems, have an enormously long time. It seem sadly possible that the US Coast Guard may actually know their stuff.

 

[Elessar]

An unwarranted attack on a perfectly reasonable post. It highlights the fact that young crew are paid very little but can end up paying a very high price, something few of them think about when they cast off.

I disagree with you. It was antagonistic. I felt justified criticising it. I still do.

 

[James_Calvert]

Signed, and forwarded on Facebook as subsequently requested.

Terrible to think that the crew could be hoping for rescue which won't come.

Doesn't matter now whether they volunteered for the trip, were paid for it or were paying for it.

Plenty of time for recriminations - deserved or not - later, no place for it right now.

 

[Tomahawk]

Time for a bump...

 

[Tomahawk]

Time for a bump...

Down to 12000 signatures needed...
Fingers crossed

 

[JumbleDuck]

Down to 12000 signatures needed...

Before what happens?

 

[maby]

Before what happens?

I wondered that - don't think it is binding on the USCG

 

[haydude]

Done

 

[Puggy]

Signed and facebooked

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

Before what happens?

All that happens is Change.org create a new higher target.

That said, with over 155,000 signatures now the press are starting to take note:

"Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, the MP for one of the men, tweeted that it was too soon to give up and a petition urging authorities in the US to continue the search has amassed more than 150,000 signatures." BBC

Apparently now the UK Coastguard are supporting the decision to stop the search:

"Our own coastguard have been fully briefed throughout and believe the USCG have done everything they could."

I appreciate that I don't know all the facts, but calling off a search so soon after they were reported missing is certainly not doing everything they could...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27486648

Many experts think they could still be alive. PLEASE KEEP LOOKING!!!

Pete

 

[nigelmercier]

Sir Ben Ainslie picked up a tweet: http://benainslie.com/

 

[JumbleDuck]

I appreciate that I don't know all the facts, but calling off a search so soon after they were reported missing is certainly not doing everything they could...

I think that's an implied "everything reasonable". Given that they had very precise positions from two PLBs, and that on that basis they found the boat, how likely is it that a 10' diameter bright orange life raft could have escaped the search, either by being missed or by being somewhere unexpected? My interpretation of USCG press releases is that they were confident that the liferaft was not to be found and that the survivability window for immersion in seawater at 15C had, sadly passed.

 

[WF36]

The US Coastguard have confirmed they will be resuming the search for four missing sailors from the UK.

The US Coastguard told the family of Somerset sailor Steve Warren that they will be liaising with Canadian and British authorities and will be resuming the search from the air within the next hour.

http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/upd...thin-the-hour/

 

[Halcyon Yachts]

Well done to everyone who signed the petition, shared through social media or emailed friends and family. The search now continues:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27492026

Over 200,000 concerned people have been listened to!

Now we just have to hope that they are still out there, holding on and awaiting rescue. Good luck guys!

Pete