{"id":17579,"date":"2020-08-17T13:35:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/survivor-stories\/gulf-of-mexico-4\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T21:51:56","slug":"gulf-of-mexico-4","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/survivor-stories\/gulf-of-mexico-4\/","title":{"rendered":"60 miles out of Freeport Texas, Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were out offshore fishing about 60 miles out of Freeport Texas, on the way back we had engine failure. &nbsp;We tried to use the VHF to hail the coast guard and\/or any other boats in the area. &nbsp;The VHF was silent for about 4 hours, sent a distress call adrift over the VHF, it has an automatic resend of the distress call every 3 min. &nbsp;After that time we decided to shoot flairs and hang the distress flag. &nbsp;There were no other boats in sight. &nbsp;We then proceeded to activate the epirb, because no cell signal, no response on VHF and no one around. &nbsp;The coast guard helo showed up some time later and that was first communication is about 6 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Some time later the coast guard small boat showed up and had a mechanic jump on board, we could not get engines running. &nbsp;Coast guard could not get VHF signal out either, was told we were in a dead zone. &nbsp;The only way they were able to find us was the EPIRB. &nbsp;So thankful that the guys at the miami boat show talked me in to getting one. &nbsp;It could have been a really bad situation without the Epirb. &nbsp;I also want to say thank you to the US coast guard, they were so professional and did an outstanding job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were out offshore fishing about 60 miles out of Freeport Texas, on the way back we had engine failure. &nbsp;We tried to use the VHF to hail the coast guard and\/or any other boats in the area. &nbsp;The VHF was silent for about 4 hours, sent a distress call adrift over the VHF, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":17578,"template":"","survivor-category":[14],"terrain":[22],"survivor-event":[],"survivor-cause":[124],"survivor-rescue":[137],"class_list":["post-17579","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","survivor-category-fishing","terrain-ocean","survivor-cause-mechanical-failure","survivor-rescue-coast-guard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/17579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acrartex-intl.dev.enterwell.space\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=17579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}