Tim PaynterDenver, CO, United States
Sep 23, 2013
Some of the good things to come out of the Nina rescue story are the multiple advances in search and rescue in the Tasman Sea. Because Texas Equusearch recruited fluid hydrologists, geophysicists and rocket scientists as well as computer scientists, they were able to recruit Digital Globe and the crowd sourcing application Tomnod to take satellite images of the area. This has never been done before in the Tasman Sea at a civilian level. The search coordinator, Ralph Baird, and his team of experts figured out how to apply computer drift modeling to determine where a yacht has floated to in a more efficient manner. The team now has a better idea how to locate a target after it has been identified on the images. We want to know where the Secretary of State is in this process. Why must the families pay a private company to run drift models when the U.S. Coast Guard could run those models for free? Where is the leadership in the office of the Secretary of State?
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