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Inmarsat satellite tracker led to yacht's rescue

7:32 PM Fri 1 Apr 2011 GMT

'Spirit of Izivunguvungu - sunk in the Atlantic, but crew rescued quickly because of a satellite tracker on board' Sea Lizzy Hange Click Here to view large photo

A stranded Cape Town yacht and its young crew were successfully located and rescued, not because they had set off a distress beacon, but because of a tracking device which had been placed on the yacht when it entered a Cape Town to Rio de Janeiro Race last month (See Sail-World story ). Xtra-Link supplied the Royal Cape Town Yacht club with 20 tracking units - enabling them to fit every yacht participating in the event. An IRC class Fast 42 yacht, the Spirit of Izivunguvungu, was being delivered back to Cape Town after participating in the Heineken Cape to Rio ...

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