Ultimately, if you fall from a cruise ship many miles from shore, it's a waiting game to be rescued, and making a signal is one way to improve your chances of being found.
"There's a lot of trash in our great oceans, unfortunately," Bigney said, adding that collecting any floating garbage into a large pile could potentially form a signal that could be spotted by rescuers. When an overboard situation is reported, the US Coast Guard uses a program to estimate where a floating object might be, Gross told Insider. The Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System factors in the person's weight, clothing, body fat percentage, and whether or not they have a flotation device, as well as weather and ocean patterns.
For Grimes, the system returned over 7,000 square nautical miles of ocean where he could be, which is about the size of Massachusetts"In the end, it's kind of a grim situation, but people have survived," Bigney said, adding:"And people sometimes just die."
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BISouthAfrica Saving you guys time 1- don’t panic 2- find anything that floats 3- you’ll be thirsty 4- Make a signal however you can – including with trash Additional - 5-Pray there are no sharks 6-lay on your back to save energy 7- don’t swim againts current 8- drink per over see water
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