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Tossed between waves and pulled in currents for three miles in just ninety minutes, a story has just emerged about four divers who were lost and rescued off the coast of Grenada after surfacing to a sudden tropical squall in late June.
Nick King and his group started a warm and clear dive of the Hemer 1, a popular ship wreck five miles off the South coast of Grenada, only to surface in extremely rough seas with no vessel in sight. The storm reduced [their] visibility to feet, King vividly recalls of the terrifying experience only a month ago.
The wind and rain in Grenadian tropical squalls can reach speeds faster than 73mph (117km/h) and create swells several meters high: weather which causes even larger vessels to find mooring. The dive boat had lost us, King writes, lots of boats had made for shelter due to the conditions.
Experienced divers, King and his dive buddies had come prepared and quickly took measures to alert any boats in the area of their situation. Equipped with depth-rated VHF radios with built-in GPS, the drifting divers sent out digitized distress calls to every vessel in the area which sparked an immediate rescue search. They were soon found by another dive boat that had heard the call at the coast and quickly jumped into action. King wrote a letter of thanks to the developer of the technology, Nautilus Lifeline, saying that the boats were guided to [them] by the GPS numbers transmitted by the [device].
Its exhilarating to know that our invention saved these guys from drifting out to sea and being lost forever, says Captain Mike Lever, inventor and developer of the Nautilus Lifeline VHF Radio/GPS.
King is back to SCUBA diving and continues to equip himself and his team for any situation.
Nick King and his group started a warm and clear dive of the Hemer 1, a popular ship wreck five miles off the South coast of Grenada, only to surface in extremely rough seas with no vessel in sight. The storm reduced [their] visibility to feet, King vividly recalls of the terrifying experience only a month ago.
The wind and rain in Grenadian tropical squalls can reach speeds faster than 73mph (117km/h) and create swells several meters high: weather which causes even larger vessels to find mooring. The dive boat had lost us, King writes, lots of boats had made for shelter due to the conditions.
Experienced divers, King and his dive buddies had come prepared and quickly took measures to alert any boats in the area of their situation. Equipped with depth-rated VHF radios with built-in GPS, the drifting divers sent out digitized distress calls to every vessel in the area which sparked an immediate rescue search. They were soon found by another dive boat that had heard the call at the coast and quickly jumped into action. King wrote a letter of thanks to the developer of the technology, Nautilus Lifeline, saying that the boats were guided to [them] by the GPS numbers transmitted by the [device].
Its exhilarating to know that our invention saved these guys from drifting out to sea and being lost forever, says Captain Mike Lever, inventor and developer of the Nautilus Lifeline VHF Radio/GPS.
King is back to SCUBA diving and continues to equip himself and his team for any situation.
