Russian drifted for two days in 8°C/46°F degree waters - Sea of Japan

[rjack321]

Do you ever leave town. I can drive out of cell phone coverage in 30 minutes here. Some travels take me out of range for days. I don't know about ham radios. Many years ago I bought a pair of Marine & Aviation band walky talkies, but decided their too bulky to pack. PLBs really are so easy to handle, so cheap, and so helpful, I wish we could get them into every car console, in every hiking pack, and on every diver.

You aren't going to be out of cell coverage in most places in germany so a PLB is overkill. Which is probably why they aren't registerable there.

You can use an EPIRB at sea but most wrecks in the Baltic dont seem to be within german territorial waters anyway.

 

[DandyDon]

waterproof pencil rocket flare.

Sounds like a fun toy, but not something I could board a plane with.

You aren't going to be out of cell coverage in most places in germany so a PLB is overkill.

Oh, you're discussing Germany. I don't think that was in your statement. I've never been, but I suspect dead cell areas exist.

PLBs may well not summon immediate aid everywhere in the world, but they do send wide ranging emergency alerts. I like the idea of my government being advised that I had an emergency wherever, and them knowing where, while I await local SAR.

Just considering the US, hardly a week goes by without some news story of a lost traveler's remains found after a wreck in a dead cell zone, etc.

Which is probably why they aren't registerable there.

They are, as I posted earlier.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Do you ever leave town. I can drive out of cell phone coverage in 30 minutes here. Some travels take me out of range for days. I don't know about ham radios. Many years ago I bought a pair of Marine & Aviation band walky talkies, but decided their too bulky to pack. PLBs really are so easy to handle, so cheap, and so helpful, I wish we could get them into every car console, in every hiking pack, and on every diver.


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He looks amazingly like my nephew. He doesn't look cold though so I shall assume that this photo was taken before his 2 day adventure at sea.

 

[greeniguana]

I have a ham radio license, and I usually always throw a V/U handheld programmed with marine CH9 and CH16 in my dry bag for boat trips. I've never been able to find any kind of dive-proof container to put it in.

 

[Dan]

I have a ham radio license, and I usually always throw a V/U handheld programmed with marine CH9 and CH16 in my dry bag for boat trips. I've never been able to find any kind of dive-proof container to put it in.

I carry these PLB & PAB in one of my BCD pockets & DSMB & spool on the other pocket. They aren’t expensive, especially when it comes to saving my life.

 

[Dan]

 

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[DandyDon]

I have a ham radio license, and I usually always throw a V/U handheld programmed with marine CH9 and CH16 in my dry bag for boat trips. I've never been able to find any kind of dive-proof container to put it in.

I started by buying a couple of those. Is the antenna removable? Would it fit in a dive canister with inside demensions of 2.75"x5.9"? That's the large canister at Diver Locator Satellite PLB Canister from HDVSEATEK.

One of the reasons I don't care for any of the radios, aside from language barriers, is what would I tell the other person? "I'm over here, in the water."

 

[W W Meixner]

I wonder if PLBs can be bought & registered in Russia?

13th ship lucky for miracle diver - Divernet

I wonder if we could get by without saying ''Russian'' like it's a four letter word...I am sure we can get by without the other slurs...like ''potato vodka''...

He's a diver like the rest of us...and after this harrowing experience...I think he's a better diver than a lot of us...he equipped himself to ''survive''...and survive alone...Kudos...

W.W...