Hiker survives 14 days thanks to persistent day hikers

[BlackHatGuy]

Ha!

[Rex Sanders]

@peterhowd OK, under appreciated.

“Geology stops at the shoreline” – we just disagreed on which side :-)

— Rex

[Dan]

Transcription error are possible. In written for or in auditable for.

That why they created the international phonetic alphabet

 

Alpha bravo Charlie, delta echo..

Delta – Alpha- Golf-November etc..

[Dan]

Transcription error, self fulfilling prophecy.

 

* Oral for or audiable form.

[jscott]

Yeah, an auditable form is what I turn in to the IRS. Maybe that’s why the guy was out there in the first place…

[Joseph Elfelt]

I just happened to see this thread now.  Thanks to Bob K for the FindMeSAR (https://findmesar.com) shout out.  I am the developer of that web page.

I agree with the comment there there likely was a transcription error of some kind and as a result the coordinates the SAR team used were not the accident location.

One moral of the story for all of us is that if you are giving coordinates to 911 (or to anyone else) clearly convey the format of the coordinates you are conveying.  And if you are giving coordinates to 911 then if at all possible give them lat lng in decimal degrees.  That is the coordinate format that the 911 call takers work with all the time.

[John S.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees

https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal

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