Fox News is reporting that just days before the fishing trip a buddy of the boat owner told him to buy a EPIRB for the boat.

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One of the reasons I have delayed my PLB buy is that I have no back country trips planned till late in the year. But I guarantee as good as the Park Service is, if I do my rim to rim to rim of the Grand Canyon in the fall I will have one. Not to mention once I am able to just do basic trail runs again in the desert.