Tuesday, Mar 17, 2009 at 14:52
Spot will sell you an insurance policy to extract you from
places not covered by a national search and rescue operation (say out of Australia in the back blocks of India). They tell me that they will inform my 10 email contacts and ring
my home plus 2 emergency telephone numbers in the event of a 911 message. I have asked these contacts to
check with the police to confirm that a emergency rescue is in place when the 911 message is sent.
They will also receive my GPS coordinates by email, as will AUSSAR, our national search and rescue organisation based in
Canberra, when we are in dire trouble (life threatening).
The AUSSAR will also be contacted by a telephone operator based in Houston who will remain in contact till the emergency has been solved.
The 911 message will be sent from our accident location every 5 minutes until the batteries go flat (up to 7 days with new batteries).
This is information sent to me by SPOT - I believe them to be a proffessional organisation and I expect they will do as they say.
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