Missing Lagoon 380 - Far North Australian waters.

[skipperpete]

I’m also a bit puzzled by the total disappearance, hard to lose sight of a boat completely, even if he ended up on the Wessels there would have been large pieces of wreckage visible from the air. I’m hoping he’s just up in the mangroves somewhere sitting at anchor.

[Ozbullwinkle]

All searches were called off a couple of weeks ago now & Darryl & his cat are now listed as officially missing at sea.

No trace of anything was ever located which is quite unusual considering his last known position was only 20Nm off Thursday Is.

[Wotname]

Sad and strange.

In the early 80s a couple guys tried to windsurf from Brisbane to Thursday Island. They perished between Cape York and Thursday Island. A air search spotted one of them well to the west of Thursday Island but visual contact could not be maintained and the bodies were never found.

[Mr. Kevin]

Does anyone know the gentleman that is listed as missing? Is it his habit to be out of contact for so long? It seems like a discouragingly long time. Hopefully he just found a nice bay and is watching the sunset.

[GordMay]

Originally Posted by Wotname

Sad and strange...

Indeed.


In an interesting coincidence, (a different) Darrell Hazel Jr., 31, has been charged with trafficking heroin, trafficking cocaine, trafficking crack cocaine, and possession of schedule 1,2,3,4 and 5 narcotics, in Georgetown, S.C.

[chrisr]

as i said in post # 9 : would not be a problem if he had AIS

cheers,

[JPA Cate]

only if the batteries weren't flooded or the boat weren't sunk. Maybe catastrophic failure of the bulkheads? Or, maybe it is a planned disappearance....

Ann

[smj]

Do drug runners transmit AIS? Asking for a friend.........[emoji16]

[chrisr]

Originally Posted by JPA Cate

only if the batteries weren't flooded or the boat weren't sunk. Maybe catastrophic failure of the bulkheads? Or, maybe it is a planned disappearance....

Ann

in case of a catastrophic failure etc, searchers have track up until that point...gives everyone a starting place for a search, and probably an approximate time for when things went pear-shaped

as for a planned disappearance...well, anything is possible. apparently there has been no epirb set off and unlikely a cat can sink so fast that an epirb button cannot be pressed (even a lagoon), so maybe that is the answer ?

cheers,

[Wotname]

Made more strange when considering the intense coastal surveillance of small craft in these waters.

Not much gets past the regular surveillance over flights and long range radar that monitors the northern Australian waters but maybe this one did.

[Jeannius]

Not much traffic in that part of the world so AIS reports will be very sparse unless you are reporting via satellite. I've crossed from Thursday Island to Darwin and the only thing we saw until right near Darwin was the Australian Coastguard plane which buzzed us at about 200 ft. Frightened the life out of me suddenly hearing this roar after days of nothing.

[GordMay]

Meanwhile:
After spending 36 hours floating at sea, on surfboards, off the coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province, Elliott Foote, his partner Steph Weisse, and their friends Jordan Short and Will Teagle, and two unnamed Indonesian nationals were found, “bobbing on surfboards”, by a surf charter boat, on Tuesday.

The four Australians {& 3 Indonesians} had been missing since Sunday night, when their wooden speedboat struck rough weather, en route to the remote Banyak Islands. As the boat sunk, the Australians and three Indonesian crew members, grabbed what they could to help their survival.

Foote was found hours later, by a local fisherman, over 20 nautical miles away, having left the group, and attempted to paddle to the nearby island of Pulau Palambakbesar, on his surfboard, to find help.

Rescuers have not yet located the third Indonesian crew member.

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[chrisr]

Originally Posted by Jeannius

Not much traffic in that part of the world so AIS reports will be very sparse unless you are reporting via satellite. I've crossed from Thursday Island to Darwin and the only thing we saw until right near Darwin was the Australian Coastguard plane which buzzed us at about 200 ft. Frightened the life out of me suddenly hearing this roar after days of nothing.

ais signal is received by satellite as matter of routine. on marinetraffic the details are suppressed and you have the option of making this visible to eg family (at extra cost)

however authorities have this info constantly in real time.

cheers,