Pretty cool.


http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2009/20090128_satellite.html

There are people out there who would say that people who carry PLB's feel "protected enough" to push the envelope and/or do stupid things KNOWING that the PLB will bring rescue with just the push of a button.

I'm not one of them.

I do wish NOAA would keep a log of PLB-related rescues much like the FAA keeps a log of airline-related incidences. It would be interesting to read the first-hand accounts of what happened, why rescue was called, how fast rescue arrived, ...

I'm wondering why so many in New Jersey?

Glad to hear that they're working, thanks for the link.

I'd also like it if the information on rescues was made available to see what situations and factors led to the activation of PLBs as well as response time etc.

They arent used to being outdoors?

This link has some info about people saved, not sure if it's related info, but it's pretty interesting:

http://searchandrescue.gsfc.nasa.gov/sarsatreports.html

I wonder how many false alarms and unneeded rescue responses their
were for the same time period.