Originally posted by bajaguy
Hey, willard....how did the "tracker" fail????
| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by Ateo
| Quote: | Originally posted by willardguy
| Quote: | Originally posted by motoged
SPOT recommends lithium batteries and you need spares for sure.
As for this tracking unit they have.....only would work as long as batteries are good and the unit is in a location that can send signal...and I don't
know how strong their transponding is...but I am looking into the notion, SPOT being one of them.
I have had very mixed results with my SPOT.
Two years ago when leading a ride of 20 guys on an outback 3-day ride in BC, a guy crashed and was revived from as close to death as possible....5
SPOT units sent SOS....the authorities received the message but not the co-ordinates that were accurate.
4.5 hours later the helicopter arrived and the guy survived....the chopper got the correct co-ords from a phone call sent by a guy who rode
out.....still a mystery as that situation. |
they're certainly not infallible, think back to that awful day
in november. |
From what I read, the SPOT on Caselli's bike was working. They sent an SOS from it. But by that time it was too late. The problem was it wasn't on
his body, where he may have been able to activate it earlier when he crashed. Maybe if the KTM chopper could have monitored the SPOT feed they
could've flown to him? Maybe they were? Who knows? The SPOT was on his bike, far away from where he landed, says X Games article:
http://xgames.espn.go.com/rally-moto-x/article/10078322/kurt...
"When he got back, Ken told me there is no way anyone riding the same direction of the race would have found Kurt if he hadn't moved his bike," Orozco
said. Ten minutes later, at 4:55 p.m., according to his tracker, Kawasaki team rider Ricky Brabec, who was in third place before the crash, spotted
the orange bike leaned upright against a small tree and slowed to look for its rider. He then spotted Caselli and turned around.
At almost that exact moment, Ramirez arrived at the scene, dismounted his bike and ran to Caselli. Brabec rode to Ramirez but stayed on his bike. "I
told Ivan, 'Stay strong,' and I left to go get help," Brabec said. As multiple reports began to filter in at pit stops and over the radio, the next
few hours were filled with confusion, false reports and misinformation.
"When I got there, it was getting dark," Ramirez said. "Kurt wasn't breathing. When I got there, he was gone."
A few minutes later, Ramirez said Kosiorek returned and stayed with him until the ambulance arrived, followed by a group of Australian spectators he
had alerted a few miles up the road. Ramirez told one of them how to access the SPOT tracker on the bike and instructed him to push its SOS button.
Doing so sent a message to the GEOS Emergency Response Center in Houston, and local search-and-rescue organizations were notified.
"At 5:15, we received a medical alert from Texas, from the Coast Guard, saying there was a medical emergency," Carpenter said. The Weatherman then
called out a "code red" over the radio, initiating an emergency response to the GPS location pinged by the tracker.
But by then, it was too late. Caselli had succumbed to his injuries. According to the autopsy report, he suffered no head trauma and died of internal
injuries.
[Edited on 1-30-2014 by Ateo] |
2x bike in the lead in the baja 1000 in relatively flat and accessible
terrain 3 miles from a paved road, Kurt hits a cow at warp speed on the course, and lays there dying for 90 minutes while no one can find him? the
tracker failed, the KTM team failed, and score failed! |
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