EPIRB made the difference: Rescued thanks his rescuers

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7:47 PM Fri 25 Mar 2011 GMT

'Sea Wolf at the dock - she&rsquo;s not a sailing boat, but carries a message for all sailors' .

It wasn't a sailing boat and it didn't happen in your waters or mine. But it served SO effectively to point out to all of us the high importance of every sea-going vessel carrying at least one EPIRB. There is no question in Eric Hopkins? mind that he owes his life to two things: a personal EPIRB and the United States Coast Guard. A 406 EPIRB was the only thing that stood between him and certain death when the party boat he was on sank last December. He was found in a field of debris which had been his boat, ...

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