Hook
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Shipwrecked and marooned on Angel de la Guardia, 1967
I just stumbled on this, as one often does, when plugging in words into Google. I was searching for coordinates for Ensenada Los Machos, aka, Humbug
Bay on Angel de la Guardia.
It is about a group from Scripps that was shipwrecked for a time in the late 60s, when Papa Diaz was around and Munoz was still flying.
http://corry.ws/CorryBook-50.htm#pgfId-999642
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David K
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Thanks a bunch... looks like fun reading!
Graham was at Humbug Bay when he was out there 'Marooned With Very Little Beer"
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what an AMAZING blog......what an amazing story of survival!
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Thanks....
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Still amazed that a hand held CB radio would create a signal that could skip to Montana. How fortunate was that?
Loved the line "...... having taken my sensitivity training with Marine Corp infantry (1 st Marines)."
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Very entertaining read. Thanks for posting.
No b-tchin\' in the Baja.
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Beautiful. Nice find!
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Geeeze, what a venture, who would have thought?? Great read, thanks,
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Graham
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Fascinating story... thanks for posting.
Really enjoyed camping alone on Guardian Angel Island for a further 6 weeks Feb/Mar 2013.
Hiking to the top of Los Machos and kayaking beneath it were two of my favorite activities... too beautiful.
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Skipjack Joe
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Fascinating story.
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thanks for the great photos Graham.
I've shared the story with some friends who do research at Scripps.
It reminded me of a binational research team- combined Scripps/CICESE fisheries project- who set up an underwater collection device offshore from
Guaymas about 25 years ago. It was left in place for months at a time, and periodically "turned around" via ship: researchers collected the
sediments, fish scales, water samples, etc. that it contained, and returned it to its underwater position for a long term research project.
Unfortunately, a year or two after it was set up, it stopped responding to radio signals from the research vessels (RV). When we went out to collect
data, we could detect no "ping" in response to calls from the ship, and the anchor cable on its mooring never released, allowing it to return to the
surface for retrieval via CO2 canisters inflating a balloon, to take it up.
After trying for a few days, motoring around the area, we had to give up and return to Guaymas. It was an expensive piece of equipment to leave
sitting underwater in the Sea of Cortez. I don't think it's ever beenn recovered.
Maybe some fishing crew hooked it, and took it back to port as a souvenir.
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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Thanks for posting this Hook, loved it.
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