One of the rules of boating that one learns early on is that if another mariner is in trouble you go and lend assistance. A heartening example of this occurred off Australia last week when an Air Canada flight inbound for Australia was asked by ATC to divert and search for a sail boat that was squawking an emergency distress code. Air Canada diverted and dropped to 6000' looking for the mariner in trouble and found him. Once they had a position fix transmitted on him, they continued the flight to Sydney arriving 90 minutes late. The sailor was later rescued by the Australian military. Nice job Air Canada! Nice story amongst all the nastiness in the world.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-19970274
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