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OK, so no chopper available. So your a saying that his plan of action for this dive was to abandon the decoms to take a bent shore to the shore? This is the way you Whitefish morons work? You people are loonies. Jim On 9/20/97 10:12 AM DFountain@ao*.co* wrote: >Look at a map. The nearest Coastie helicopter is stationed in Traverse City. > That's about 140 miles away. I don't know how fast they can fly, but it's a >long ride for them, once they decide that the chopper is really needed, >scramble the aircrew, do whatever they need to get the aircraft in the air, >etc., etc. It CAN happen on bumfuck Lake Superior, it's just that it's going >to take a damned long time. We'd love to have a local rescue chopper, but >instead we're trying to hang on to the few genuine Coast Guard facilities we >have left, and not have to depend on auxiliary manned stations. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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