• Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    By the sounds of it, they had a lot of miles under their belt.

    You have to wonder how they ended up dead? What happened to the EPIRB? Did they not have a PLB? GPS and Portable Radio?

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      4 months ago

      Boats that size can sink incredibly fast. They may have had 5 minutes to figure out what was going on, try and fail to stop it, grab a few things and deploy a life boat. It’s possible one or both of them were asleep. It may have been the middle of the night. There could have been a storm. E.g. The situation may have been very disorienting.

      I would guess whatever happened, they ended up bobbing around in a life raft for days with little or no food/water. As a pale redhead I know I would personally die after a couple days of sun exposure alone.