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Do you know if it sunk completely or..?
Last Friday night I heard a Mayday call on my VHF and Sweden Rescue answered swift and asked for the position, they got an exact GPS-position and asked how many onboard, three was the answer, what type of boat is it? A powerboat, we are sinking now... and silence.
Luckily a rescue helicopter was training landings in the dark on a cruise ship in the archipelago, not far away. So there were six boats and ships coordinated to the position as well as three helicopters, and within 30 minutes the three people were found and winched up from a small island where they had been swimming to.
This shows that a GPS/plotter is essential when you need to know your position in a hurry and a VHF is always superior to cell phones, as you can be heard by many more. The boat sank in just a couple of minutes!
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