Rival 38 "Lynn Rival" EPIRB Activated - No Information

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R38 Lynn Rival Skippered and Crewed by Paul & Rachel Chandler is on passage and her EPIRB has been activated.

Lynn Rival's EPIRB has been activated on October 23rd.
They departed from the Seychelles yesterday, 22/10/09, for a 150NM passage SW to the Amirante Islands, en route to Tanzania.

If anyone has any news of the vessel or the whereabouts please leave a message here.
 
Have you posted on the Cruiser or any other Forums?

I presume that as you are aware of the EPIRB being activated, you have been informed by Falmouth Marine Rescue & Co-ordination Centre?

The area in which they are cruising is now very dangerous for pirates. Since the Coalition Forces have placed warships along the Somalia coastline, the pirates are now working much further out in the Indian Ocean operating from mother ships and are known to be operating close to the Seychelles (see Noonsite)!

http://www.noonsite.com/Members/sue/R2009-05-14-5

Do you have any further information as their blog entry stops in the Seychelles on the 21 OCT 2009?
 
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Lensman - thanks. I have not posted on any other forum. I became aware of the message through a colleague. It is posted on www.rivalowners.org.uk and I am simply spreading the word.
 
Update On EPIRB Transmission

The EPIRB has been reported, by a UK contact, to have ceased transmitting after a few hours, which of course could indicate either premature failure or manual switching off after the discovery that it had been activated accidentally.

Lynn Rival is in an area where their satellite phone does not function. An air search has found nothing. If the yacht is safe, we may not know until it closes the Tanzanian coast, perhaps 10-14 days from now.

The above information has been taken from the www.rivalowners.org.uk
 
UPDATE:

From the American National Intelligence Agency 23 OCT 2009.

The EPIRB on "LYNN RIVAL" was activated at 01:33Z on the 23 October at the location 04° 31.43S 054° 26.10E. This is 60 nautical miles west by north of the town of Victoria in the Seychelles. There are SIX crew on board.

Further traffic:

Earlier at 05:55Z (22 OCT 2009) there was a thwarted pirate attack on a merchantman in the area 04° 09.00S 052° 35.00E this is very close to the last known position of LYNN RIVAL. The area was listed as 'High Risk for 24/48 hours'.

This update also cross posted on Noonsite and CruiserLog.
 
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lenseman said:
UPDATE:

From the American National Intelligence Agency 23 OCT 2009.

The EPIRB on "LYNN RIVAL" was activated at 01:33Z on the 23 October at the location 04° 31.43S 054° 26.10E. This is 60 nautical miles west by north of the town of Victoria in the Seychelles. There are SIX crew on board.

Further traffic:

Earlier at 05:55Z (22 OCT 2009) there was a thwarted pirate attack on a merchantman in the area 04° 09.00S 052° 35.00E this is very close to the last known position of LYNN RIVAL. The area was listed as 'High Risk for 24/48 hours.
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I hope all goes well for them. I was talking to someone last week who told me that a pleasure fishing charterboat in the same area was recently hi-jacked.
 
lenseman said:
The area in which they are cruising is now very dangerous for pirates. Since the Coalition Forces have placed warships along the Somalia coastline, the pirates are now working much further out in the Indian Ocean operating from mother ships and are known to be operating close to the Seychelles (see Noonsite)!
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I hope the people in question are well. However, I do wonder why anyone would sail through these areas. The dangers are very well known and very well reported.
 
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I hope the people in question are well. However, I do wonder why anyone would sail through these areas. The dangers are very well known and very well reported.
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Trying to get from A to B?

"They departed from the Seychelles yesterday, 22/10/09, for a 150NM passage SW to the Amirante Islands, en route to Tanzania."

Don't know if there was an easy alternative?
 
The 6 POB may be the listed number of POB for the yacht. Its not clear yet how many were on board.
 
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The 6 POB may be the listed number of POB for the yacht. Its not clear yet how many were on board.
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I have just spend about ½-hour on the phone to Michael Smith (Rival Owners Association). We are of the opinion that they would definitely not have taken any extra crew with them and that the "SIX CREW" just might be a coded message saying that they have been taken by 4 pirates.

***This, I hasten to add is only a theory. *** :confused:
 
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The maximum number of persons carried is part of the original EPIRB registration. I think it's likely that's where the 6 persons comes from.

Does anybody know of an EPIRB that could transmit the number of persons on board?
 
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali pirates said on Tuesday they had seized a yacht in the Indian Ocean with a British couple aboard and were taking the vessel to the Horn of Africa nation.

"The British couple are in our hands now. We captured them as they were touring in the Indian Ocean," a pirate called Hassan told Reuters. He said the two captives were healthy and ransom demands would follow.


http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE59Q13L20091027
 
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