Comment on Evi Nemeth, retired Boulder computer professor, missing at sea near New ZealandparentComments−rorrr213yWhile GPS works nearly everywhere, there's no simple affordable system to transmit your location.Oceans are huge, and even sattelite transmitters don't cover everything. Example:http://www.gpstrackersandmore.com/spot2-gps-trackerhttp://www.findmespot.eu/en/index.php?cid=102Even if something like that worked perfectly, oceans are extremely dangerous. A huge wave can destroy even a large sailboat in seconds.
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While GPS works nearly everywhere, there's no simple affordable system to transmit your location.
Oceans are huge, and even sattelite transmitters don't cover everything. Example:
http://www.gpstrackersandmore.com/spot2-gps-tracker
http://www.findmespot.eu/en/index.php?cid=102
Even if something like that worked perfectly, oceans are extremely dangerous. A huge wave can destroy even a large sailboat in seconds.