xkcd #3169: EPIRBs

a year ago by xkcd bot to c/xkcd

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'Oh no, the box is drifting out into the harbor!' 'Yeah, I wouldn't worry about losing it.'

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SkaraBrae 66 points a year ago

When I worked for a scrap metal recycler someone dumped a load of electronics and didn't tell us there were EPIRBs in the mix. We found out when the cost guard, police, fire and ambulance turned up.

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ripcord 2 points a year ago

Wait wtf were they doing dumping them in the ocean

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SkaraBrae 1 point a year ago

Dumped at the scrapyard... In a three-sided, concrete-walled bay in the yard, 30km from the nearest large body of water. I didn't say anything about the ocean.

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BanMe 1 point a year ago

Nautical crackheads will strip beacons right off the waves. In broad daylight.

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