Rescue at sea for sick baby

[Lilibet]

I wonder why he would even tweet about being made fun of on national radio! (Could it have been Howard Stern?)

Funny that no one even bothered to reply and sympathize with him.

Well someone who might be considered a little narcissistic would likely announce any "claim to fame" to anyone who may be paying them some attention, negative or otherwise.

MOO

:goodpost: You are really good at reading between my lines. Love it! :floorlaugh:

 

[Lilibet]

Sorry for the double post. I thought the first one got lost when my iPad battery died.

 

[Kamille]

The CF has opened a new thread regarding the lawsuit. Some interesting viewpoints there...

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f57/rebel-heart-lawsuit-129775.html

 

[Snoods]

Does that attorney have any actual paying clients? He actually said a trip to Disneyland was more dangerous? Seriously? I'm pretty sure Disneyland has lotsa people and working phones.

Their radios were out of range....that's on them. It's no different than intentionally hiking with small children into the wilderness out of range of a cell phone or radio. Blaming the phone company for your own lack of common sense really is laughable. These clowns are lucky they had the back-up emergency system to activate. The couple who accidentally got lost in a blizzard in the Pacific Northwest a few years ago would have loved to have had a back-up emergency system available to them. The Daddy died while futilely seeking help for his family. If only he had had an emergency button to push.

JMO

BBM What a dumb comparison anyway. Comparing the 100 million people who visit Disneyland each year to the number of families who travel across the ocean in an unseaworthy boat in a year? Statistically it's also safer to travel across the ocean in a lawn chair tied to helium balloons. Prove me wrong!

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-visited-tourist-attractions/10

 

[Snoods]

The CF has opened a new thread regarding the lawsuit. Some interesting viewpoints there...

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f57/rebel-heart-lawsuit-129775.html

Oh goody, thank you. I love reading the CF threads about RH. Here are two more just in case anyone missed these.

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f129/call-for-help-this-american-life-merged-125942.html

This one is responses to Eric's Captain's log http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...30-2014-from-the-rebel-heart-blog-125428.html

 

[redheadedgal]

thanks kamille and snoods !

i too love those threads... i guess i'm gonna meander over thataway now... will stop at the bar for a drink for the road... maybe a (non) captain and coke in eric's honor eace:

 

[redheadedgal]

new blog post: july 24 @ http://www.therebelheart.com/blog/

 

[redheadedgal]

also interesting, is this blog post where eric discusses the satphone... he only mentions work, not safety:

http://www.therebelheart.com/blog/2013/9/5/the-roof-the-roof-the-roof-is-my-office.html

 

[Kamille]

Oh goody, thank you. I love reading the CF threads about RH. Here are two more just in case anyone missed these.

http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums/f129/call-for-help-this-american-life-merged-125942.html

This one is responses to Eric's Captain's log http://www.cruisersforum.com/forums...30-2014-from-the-rebel-heart-blog-125428.html

Eric's responses on the second link "captain's log" thread pretty much sums up exactly why this lawsuit is ridiculous. He is very candid about the fact that Lyra was very ill and dehydrated with an "unknown" illness. He knew she needed to get off that boat and back to the mainland. He knew his wife would go with her. He claims he was "uncomfortable" with the idea of sailing around in the middle of the Pacific with a 3yr old and no EPIRB but the bottom line for him was that he did not want to be out there while his daughter had an unknown and possibly deadly illness. He wanted to be with his family. Phone or no phone, that boat would have been scuttled IMO. No call to a doctor was going to help Lyra. How do you stop a sick child from vomiting in rough seas with 20ft swells? It was her first trip in those kinds of conditions. No doubt she was also sea sick along with whatever other illness she was suffering. No wonder she started doing so well after getting off the boat. He does not say that after three days with the "PJ's" as he calls them, that Lyra was well enough to continue sailing. So how many days after the "doctor's advice" (which they would never had gotten from a US doctor IMO) would they have called for the rescue anyway? If someone from the USCG had been able to call back I am curious to what they were going to tell them.

If they called back and said they should get Lyra off the boat and Eric told them via satellite phone to come and help them, would he have stayed with the boat if he still had a working EPIRB and satellite phone? According to his answers on the CF forum, no. His priority was being with his sick daughter and family. That was what he determined his decision to scuttle the boat on according to his own words. Also wondering if he would have had to use the EPIRB for GPS locating anyway, even if he had told the USCG via phone to help them. Or would he have been able just to give co ordinates over the phone? Did he know his co-ordinates if he was having trouble with his electronics and communications equipment?

MOO

 

[Hiandmighty]

At updates on this like the reply to the filing from the satellite phone store?

 

[gitana1]

BBM What a dumb comparison anyway. Comparing the 100 million people who visit Disneyland each year to the number of families who travel across the ocean in an unseaworthy boat in a year? Statistically it's also safer to travel across the ocean in a lawn chair tied to helium balloons. Prove me wrong!

http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/worlds-most-visited-tourist-attractions/10

Whoa! How dare you use logic!!! LOL!

 

[Hiandmighty]

It's a wonder I didn't find you all back in the summer when I followed this story! Two points I'm not sure were ever made:

1) the amount of calories it takes to constantly stay upright on heavy seas + dehydration from sickness-- I don't think that poor child had a chance to get well had they stayed on the boat.

2) if you read charlotte's blog in February/March, she was having active suicidal thoughts. Now, she did the right things: she wrote about it, she called a few people, she had a medicine change. BUT BUT BUT any suicidal thoughts aren't "normal" and I personally believe it was unreasonable for them to set out with only her as crew three months later. Too much stress.

How can one person be crew and watch a baby and a 3/4 year old? You can't. The whole thing was beyond irresponsible.

I think with the baby sick, Charlotte lost it and I actually wonder if she was the one who pushed the Epirb locator, with or without Eric's knowledge. Once she did (if she did) he would no longer have say in the matter as a rescue would already be in the works.

 

[JerseyGirl]

One Year Later ... http://www.therebelheart.com/blog/2015/4/2/one-year-later.html#entry35293440

 

[MyBelle]

One Year Later ... http://www.therebelheart.com/blog/2015/4/2/one-year-later.html#entry35293440

Some people learn from their mistakes and some just chose to blame others. I really do feel sorry for the little girls.

JMO

 

[Zuri]

One Year Later ... http://www.therebelheart.com/blog/2015/4/2/one-year-later.html#entry35293440

Wow. The ocean looked a lovely blue...

 

[MyBelle]

Wow. The ocean looked a lovely blue...

no doubt said as she jumped the shark.

 

[Hiandmighty]

As long as they still don't have a new boat, they can use all kinds of words to describe how they perceive themselves. I'm good with them dreaming about a new boat while they are on land (where they belong).

 

[wendiesan]

"What's past, is prologue."

The past influences the conditions of the present which, in turn, affect the choices we make that shape the future.
The past does not disappear because it is inconvenient, and the "adults" in this family seem incapable of taking a close look at the results of their actions.

 

[Hiandmighty]

Oh and BTW, their girls are still living in a closet sleeping on top each other.

These parents are a *hot mess*

 

[Hiandmighty]

:giggle:

I'm still chuckling at how they are refining their new boating style while living "on the hard" (on land).

:giggle:

(The mom can sew some cushions though. I'll give her that.)