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This is the Buoy report only 54 nm from Nantucket at 1:50 PM (Local Time) 
In Response To: Good News - they're alive... ()
() Amazing what the USCG makes look "routine" -- going into subfreezing water in those seas and winds...UFB
I would like to ask that reporter from the "puff-piece" in Newport what basis they had for assuming that storm made it "okay" to go out there?
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- Extreme hard core, or Darwin Award Candidates? You decide...
- That's scary
- I wouldn't put it on a trailer in that weather...
- With an eddy in the gulf stream going the "wrong way" in an eddy, that could become horriffic, couldn't it?
- I read the story again . . .
- Good News - they're alive...
- And, in related news...
- I guess we all knew that they weren't going to get very far. Ass holes.
- This is the Buoy report only 54 nm from Nantucket at 1:50 PM (Local Time)
- Well golly gee that's surprising
- Here's the CG video...
- Footage and USCG Site
- And, in related news...
- They don't qualify for the DA.
