Okay...What would YOU have done?

[Airwaves]

APS wrote in part:

FLL's possibility was relayed to the NHMP by my second call, but the boater had used such volume and urgency I just couldn't just stand around...telephone in hand. This early in the season—with no boat—even my neighbors don't have "basic boats" in the water to row to a rescue!

Did the NHMP respond at all?

I would expect that they would/should have just to make certain and your second phone call would have just given added information about the incident. Like the local police responding to 9-1-1 calls even though someone calls back and says the kids were playing with the phone.

This brings to mind an incident a few years back in which the Coast Guard made a determination that a MayDay call was a hoax and did not launch a SAR, turns out the call was real and foks died. Now the Coast Guard launchs SARS on every distress call and seeks help from other boaters.

This is also why the Coast Guard take hoax calls very seriously and they are prosecuted. They have already started an investigation of a hoax call this boating season in Maine.

[ApS]

(Apologies to Peter Sellers).

Originally Posted by Airwaves

"...Did the NHMP respond at all...?"

I checked back with the NHMP today. There was a long interrogation of me (!)—that ended with their asking, "Who wants to know?"

My explanation was a little involved—and ended with my saying, I didn't actually know who "wanted to know".

However, their ears perked up when I mentioned this forum!

They checked the logbook for my name, date, time, and descriptions.

The MPs had stopped the boater, and immediately-summarily-forthwith got the explanation :

"I was talking to friends".