Hasnain says:

Read the whole thing wondering how it would be a pretty obvious next step for Garmin to post about this as a PR/marketing thing. Then I got to the end and realized this was the garmin site. Oops.

Regardless, the GPS definitely did play a part in this person surviving. What a story.

“The story was simple, really, and one that could happen to almost any boater on any given day. Sascha had gone to the side to relieve himself and simply fell overboard. He’d reached for the railing to grab it on the way down, but he missed. And that was it — his boat sped away without him, nearly 40 miles away from shore. At one point, he said, he’d seen another boat, but they’d missed him. He’d been in the water for two-and-a-half hours.

Had his boat not gone rogue, somehow completing its pattern of hard turns and loops with no one at the helm — had it not headed straight for the Shermans, or had the Shermans not been the skilled mariners that they are — had Sascha not tracked his waypoints on his Garmin marine GPS, or had the Garmin technology been less intuitive for an unfamiliar boater in a stressful situation — this story could’ve ended so much differently.”

Posted on 2023-02-06T05:28:04+0000