Missing Southampton yachtsman

[scotty]

Does anybody have any ideas about adding to the pressure on the US Coastguards to resume this search?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27465639

 

The lad in question is the son of my neighbour's best mate. Anything anyone here can think of to get the search resumed would be welcomed. Also, if anyone would like to email their MP, that would also be useful.

[scotty]

There is now a petition to William Hague, please sign it. Only needs another 2000 signatures.

 

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/u-s-coastguard-restart-the-search-for-the-missing-cheeki-rafiki-crew-members

[littleoldladysaint]

Signed.

[bridge too far]

Signed

[scotty]

Thank you, ladies.

[jjsaint]

Signed. I rarely sign these petitions but I signed this one. If there's any chance of finding these men then it's negligence to call off the search.

[scotty]

Signed. I rarely sign these petitions but I signed this one. If there's any chance of finding these men then it's negligence to call off the search.

 

Thanks jj.

 

The petition is very close now to reaching it's target, but time is pressing, not just because of the petition cut-off point, but how long these lads are going to survive. Please, Saintsweb, get everyone you can to sign it asap, he is a local lad and abandoned in the Atlantic.

 

http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/u-s-coastguard-restart-the-search-for-the-missing-cheeki-rafiki-crew-members

[Dig Dig]

Signed

[SNSUN]

The search is continuing, I wish them and their families the best.

[jjsaint]

The search is continuing, I wish them and their families the best.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27492026

 

Wonderful news.

[jjsaint]

^ The news was just confirming what SNSUN said, not anything additional...

[Tokyo-Saint]

Bit late but signed it.

[scotty]

Debris just found by a catamaran, which will hopefully give a clue to the position of the liferaft.

 

The families have asked that people continue to sign the petition, even though the search has been resumed.

[skintsaint]

The Coast Guard said the yacht's life raft had not been deployed and was still in its storage space.

 

[rallyboy]

That's a blow.

They sounded like experienced guys who could survive with the raft.

While the recovery of the yacht may answer some questions it's a sad end to the search.

[SNSUN]

Huge shame they hadn't had time to deploy the life raft. With the storms they had to put up with they didn't stand a chance. RIP to all the sailors, and huge condolances to Scotty's next door neighbour's best mate and the families and friends involved.

[Sergei Gotsmanov]

Huge shame they hadn't had time to deploy the life raft. With the storms they had to put up with they didn't stand a chance. RIP to all the sailors, and huge condolances to Scotty's next door neighbour's best mate and the families and friends involved.

 

The way that the family conducted themselves reflected incredibly well on them. A very sad story.

[scotty]

Thanks, everyone.

 

As Sergei says, regardless of the tragic outcome, the families involved can at least take heart from the knowledge that there is absolutely nothing more that they could possibly have done. They moved two governments, and mobilised one of the largest searches imaginable.

[manji]

Those yachties chose to go on a reckless trip. Then the families have the audacity to insist on an expensive and fruitless search just to make themselves feel better.

It reminds me of all those poor sherpas who have died so thrill seekers with too much money and time on their hands can say they "climbed" Everest.