Sailor with no EPIRB drifts for days before rescue

10:01 PM Thu 28 Oct 2010 GMT

'Richard Steg aboard Coast Guard cutter after rescue' .

'It can't happen to me.' But yes it can. Another leisure sailor has drifted in the ocean for days before being rescued because he didn't have a registered EPIRB on board his boat. The Coast Guard rescued a 73-year-old sailor, Richard Steg of Connecticut, who had been adrift at sea since Monday approximately 47-miles east of Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The crew of the Port Canaveral, Fla., based 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Shrike located Steg adrift at sea aboard the 35-foot single-masted sail vessel Bonvivant. The vessel's engine lost power Monday and sustained a broken mast from heavy weather leaving Steg ...

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