re: Missing Kayaker in the gulf

Sad situation. Hope they find him.

All outdoorsman need to look in to the SPOT tracker or some other tracking/alert system.

Put it on your Christmas list this year. $99 to purchase and annual service of $99 for basic alert or $150 year if you want web based tracking.

I have mine on anytime I'm in my yak, friends boat or atv. Hell, it's stays in the glove box of my SUV so it's always there.

I posted the story a while back about getting washed out of the Mississippi river into a spillway after capsizing durIng a kayak race. My wife was watching real time on her iPad and saw me leave the river. (She had know idea what was going on) No one would have looked for me out of the river and down in "Paw Paws chute" if things had went from bad to tragic without a tracker. While I was I the water, I thought about the tracker and knew they would realize where to start looking for me if I had to let go of boat and swim as I was nearing a debris pile. Luckily it all worked out. My blackberry was ruined inside my kayak hatch and inside a dry bag. SPOT tracker , strapped on outside of kayak and submerged for 5-10 minutes before I could flip kayak worked fine. Point Being; don't rely on just a cell phone!