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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy
A lot of things can happen, sounds like they went down fast so it may have gotten damaged. Or the epirb could have popped free only to get sucked down with the vessel.
Life rafts are really the last place you want to be, they are miserable and not very reliable or safe. Maybe it wasn't taken care of or was damaged. The old saying goes you only leave your boat when you have to step up into the life raft.
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Or maybe there was a wrong number?
That's what happened in a vessel sinking off the coast here last year and contributed to the delay in launching CG SAR.
The investigation has been ongoing for a year now.
http://www.app.com/article/20100413/NEWS/100410049/N.J.-fishing-boat-sinking-prompts-call-for-GPS-rescue-beacon-rule
Six crew lost. One survivor.
Here's where they go.
http://videos.nj.com/star-ledger/2009/05/underwater_footage_of_fishing.html