Ben Dobrin
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So if you fall in overnight, it's a light activated on the PFD.
I also have what's called an EPIRB, an electronic satellite on my PFD.
So if I fall overboard, my PFD pings up to a satellite and then the Coast Guard knows where I am.
He said she wasn't wearing a PFD, but then they found...
If he wasn't wearing a PFD, then it'd be hard to see at night.
I mean, I don't know what the moonlight was like, the star lights, but if he's driving a boat at night, he can see enough to operate a vessel.
He would be able to see somebody in the water that was near to him.
If he's looking out for, you know, it's the Bahamas, there's reefs, there's channel markers, there's buoys, there's other boats.
So there's enough light that he can operate the vessel.
There's enough light that he can see somebody floating in the water who's not super far away from him.
And if she was conscious, she would be yelling and waving her hands.
Or if she was unconscious, she'd still be floating at the surface so he could see her and be able to see her and then paddle to her and recover her back onto the dinghy.
In America, NOAA has buoys, and you can get historical data on the buoys of what the sea state was, how big the waves are, the wind.
I know the water temperature in the Bahamas right now is about 76 or 77.
So, you know, people don't think that you can get hypothermia in the Bahamas, but after about
It varies 15 to 20 hours, 25 hours.
You can still get hypothermia in the Bahamas if you're in water that long.
But if you want to check out the sea state, I don't know if Bahamas has something akin to the NOAA buoys that we have in the United States looking at the sea state.