Video released by the Navy showed one of the women blowing kisses to an approaching U.S. vessel as their two dogs, Zeus and Valentine, barked and scampered about.
They had water purifiers and a year's worth of food aboard — mostly dry goods like oatmeal, pasta and rice — before setting out for Tahiti from Hawaii on May 3, the Navy and Marie Appel said, and they used those supplies to survive.
Two hours in the trip her phone was washed overboard, Jennifer Appel contacted the Coast Guard to let them know and the Coast Guard estimated the pair should arrive in Tahiti by around June 5.
Then there were problems with the antenna, the motor starter failed, and new rigging on the mast broke, Marie Appel said.
The Navy said the engine became disabled during bad weather on May 30, but they continued on by sail. When they were found they were far off course, closer to Japan while Tahiti is south of Hawaii, around 2,600 miles away. They sailboat was found more than 5,000 miles away from Tahiti.
Ayden Adams
ok
Cooper Gutierrez
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Ryan Collins
>a ship with only women Must have been hell on earth.
Dominic Martin
agreeing with this user, how is this political?
Eli Clark
It'd be the greatest first three hours, which probably would make the next 5 months that much worse.
Liam Walker
did the ship not have any equipment to repair the engine with?
Chase Young
What would they have done with it?
Nathaniel Lewis
I guess not!
Jace Ramirez
News/current events is also part of the discussion brief here.
Easton Sanders
>Then there were problems with the antenna, the motor starter failed, and new rigging on the mast broke, Marie Appel said.
what? how? This makes no sense.
Antennas don't magically have problems without some dipshit putting something next to it that shouldn't be there starters don't just die, why the fuck are they turning the engine on and off repeatedly in the first place? the boat should've been moving 24/7 toward the destination Rigging on a mast doesn't "break", especially new rigging. Even a goddamn prybar would take a lot of effort to get that shit off.
Michael Rogers
what I would do
Landon Thomas
>Be female ((sailor)) >lose critical shit, unable to fix all other shit >claim to be equal to men
Landon Powell
>women incapable of operating basic marine equipment, lose phone overboard within two hours, somehow break all gear, and are unable maintain functioning vessel, rescued by male sailors
Easton Kelly
Wasnt it a couple years ago in the UK when some women were given 50,000 pounds in compensation for injuries they sustained from marching like men
Josiah Evans
Those dogs were most happy to see other humans.
"Dese bitches be crazy!!"
Jaxson Russell
Yep, that happened in the UK.
Asher Torres
>implying they didn't go canadian
Kayden Rodriguez
The identity and gender politics train has no brakes and we're gonna run this fucker hot, til it explodes. This is what happens when you "make the personal political", libtard. We took it personally and made our revenge political.
Ryan Brooks
You think these daft twits remembered to pack the peanut butter?
Jaxson Wright
Correct. There were no men on board.
Mason Miller
They wanted to be rescued after they ran out of Skippy.
William Robinson
>not having an epirb
Cooper Nguyen
epirb?
Ayden Green
Emergency Position Indicator Radio Beacon
A distress beacon in layman's terms
Brayden Cook
Hah, my thoughts exactly when I read about them having dogs along for the sea voyage.
Eli Miller
Does it have to be close to land to work?
Zachary Taylor
it was sabotage . some pussy hungry dike rekt the boat so she could get some alone time with another dike
Samuel Reyes
Transmits the signal to a satellite IIRC
Joseph Myers
the heli that serves the epirb costs 15k per hour to operate they werent in an emergency (taking on water), just fucking retarded
Camden Taylor
Emergency Position INDICATING Radio Beacon
international maritime law requires these, not sure why she didnt activate it, if her masts were down and engine thats reason enough to activate it. being dead in the water is really really bad.
