Schooner Nina - MERGED 3 THREADS

[Friend of Nina]

Tes2013. What am I looking at?? Cherie

[Naamah]

Originally Posted by Friend of Nina

Tes2013. What am I looking at?? Cherie

I believe the poster is alluding to the image quality or resolution

[Friend of Nina]

Here is an update from Ricky Wright; S/V Nina and Crew update: We had a good search flight yesterday, but no find of our loved ones. Fortunately, the airplane is available again, when it was not before. Thank you to the corporateair company for making this happen, along with everyone's PRAYERS! We will search the Middleton Reef area on the flight tonight, as well as finish the search in the Newcastle area, when the military clears us to fly it. Keep your PRAYERS and DONATIONS coming!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU

From Ricky Wright.....
Cherie

[Friend of Nina]

www.katc.com In Australia, a second aerial search will begin for a missing UL student and six others aboard a sai...
Rest is at www.katc.com.
Cherie

[Hi from BTR LA]

There are lots of prayers and donations coming from Baton Rouge. Blessings to your family and all others on the Nina. We watch, wait and pray continuously. Thanks for your posts, Cherie. Keep us informed. Love and blessings.

[Friend of Nina]

Cherie, I have passed your request along to our group of radio operators. Best regards, Steve Wojton NN2NN 14300.net

Folks Mike on CF gave me info to yachting community and this is their response!.

[Friend of Nina]

Originally Posted by Hi from BTR LA

There are lots of prayers and donations coming from Baton Rouge. Blessings to your family and all others on the Nina. We watch, wait and pray continuously. Thanks for your posts, Cherie. Keep us informed. Love and blessings.

Trying to keep updated. Think second search will be Fri, Aussie day.

Cherie

[Friend of Nina]

Sorry it's Sat Aussie time. Cherie

[Worried Mum]

Whilst we would like images like this, as ShaktiGurl has said, we do not have anything approaching this resolution. Nothing better exists, and even if we could arrange the satellites to be tasked to take better resolution, (which would take some time and in any case couldn't be guaranteed to be free from cloud cover) we would have to be multi-millionaires, or better, to be able to afford it. It would be cheaper to air-search the entire ocean, and that is way way beyond available finances (again, we would need to be multi-millionaires).
The resolution of images that we have, and are likely to have, will at best be sufficient to show Nina as a slightly lighter pixel against a dark ocean. And seeing that will require a lot of people looking at data. It is likely to produce a lot of 'false-positives' which would then somehow need to be evaluated.

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by Worried Mum

will at best be sufficient to show Nina as a slightly lighter pixel against a dark ocean. And seeing that will require a lot of people looking at data. It is likely to produce a lot of 'false-positives' which would then somehow need to be evaluated.

So if a whitecape is anywhere it will look like a lighter pixel.
Even say it was a calm day and there were only 50 or so 'false positives' how would they be able to be evaluated?

In those waters theres white caps aplenty even on the most benign days.

The costs would be mammoth.

[scoobert]

they have been missing how long now?

[David_Old_Jersey]

IIRC they set off approx 7 weeks ago - missing around about a month.

[MarkJ]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

IIRC they set off approx 7 weeks ago - missing around about a month.

Since comms loss and probably damage/loss its 45 days = 6+ weeks

[scoobert]

Originally Posted by David_Old_Jersey

IIRC they set off approx 7 weeks ago - missing around about a month.

fresh water and food will become an issue quickly if they are alive. how long did captain cook sail for?

[Friend of Nina]

Well they prob had a 30 day supply of some things, more on staples less on perishables.
Cherie