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Hard to imagine that the USCG would have liferafts on board that were unfit for use and unchecked for years ...on a CG Vessel that Is meant to save lives
 

Watch live: Hundreds of passengers escape after jet collides with small plane in Japan​

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Lost at sea, boatie thought it was his last sunset

The fisherman who spent 23.5 hours lost at sea after falling overboard while game fishing says the three young men who spotted the glint of his watch and plucked him out of the sea deserve all the recognition.
Without them, he’d be a goner.
After pulling him aboard an hour’s drive off the Coromandel coast on Wednesday, the trio wrapped him in every piece of clothing on board for the trip back to shore.
He didn’t have much to say at first, skipper Mike White told CFM, but got chattier after some cranberries and water as they got closer to Whangamatā.
Cambridge man Will Fransen, 61, had hooked what he thought was a marlin and fallen overboard near the Aldermen Islands during a solo fishing trip on Tuesday.
He’d been intending to return on Wednesday but ended up bobbing in the sea about 55km (30 nautical miles) offshore and using his wristwatch to attract his eventual rescuers.
“Everybody was brilliant, all the rescue services were really professional, beautiful people ... I couldn’t have asked for more.”
Police say it’s an “absolute miracle” he’s still alive after the 23.5-hour ordeal.
With his 40-foot boat heading out of reach, he tried to swim to the islands, but the currents swept him away.

He endured a cold night in the ocean, too exhausted to keep swimming, visited by a shark which had “a sniff” before taking off again.
About 2pm on Wednesday, three fishermen on a boat spotted an unusual reflection near Mayor Island.
Upon investigating, they found the hypothermic and exhausted man desperately trying to get their attention using the reflection of the sun on his watch.

He floated 30 km in a day. Found 15 km of Mayor island. Which he would have been able to see but out of juice. His 40 foot boat could be anywhere now. The price of that Marlin that got away. He must want revenge on it.
 
...... WTF .
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Saw that - wonder what difference does it make though?

Most mass murderers in America in the past two decades pretty much always had a serious mental illness and for many were off their meds right the moment they decided to go on a shooting spree. Just because this individual “identified” as a Transgender potentially made him a threat?
 
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What's going on there with the river shipping?

There are already several vids on YT of ships crashing into bridges from time to time.

Loss of control or captain/helmsman drunk?
 
On the comforting side: this happened at night at a very low-traffic time period.

So, though there are still a dozen vehicles, at least, that went down with their passengers (and I doubt most of them will survive), it could have much much worse if that event had happened later.
 
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