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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on May 10, 2010, 04:13:36 PM
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Alex Bond, from Penryn, Cornwall, docked his 33ft yacht Mary Powell on Kanton Island - a tiny atoll between Hawaii and Fiji - for a rest.
But he soon discovered the atoll was home to 14 adults and 10 children, who had been without supplies for months because the ship due to deliver them had got stuck.
The families had been surviving on coconuts and fish and were desperately low on water.
So Mr Bond shared everything he could spare with the islanders.
The skipper - who is a fundraiser and supporter of the ShelterBox charity based in Cornwall - contacted Falmouth Coastguard for help and they, in turn, called their American counterparts and the Honolulu authorities to arrange for a fresh boat-load of supplies.
"When the British sailor arrived, he was met by the desperate and starving islanders who had not been delivered any supplies for months," explained the Falmouth coastguard.
"The supply ship which should have brought them provisions was stuck at a nearby island. They had been living off just coconuts and any fish that they could catch for months." ...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100510/tuk-paradise-lost-sailor-finds-starving-45dbed5.html
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A guy who fundraises for a charity finds real needy people.
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A guy who fundraises for a charity finds real needy people.
God has that way of directing those who really need one's help, to that person . . .
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I don't get it. If the supply ship was stuck on one island, did not some one put two and two together to realize the other island on the route did not get their supplies. Shouldn't this have been a mater of just letting someone know those folks needed supplies because the intend shipment was not going to make it?
Something is strange about this. I know when I don't or can't complete a job I don't assume some magical force, on faith, will finish for me.
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I don't get it. If the supply ship was stuck on one island, did not some one put two and two together to realize the other island on the route did not get their supplies. Shouldn't this have been a mater of just letting someone know those folks needed supplies because the intend shipment was not going to make it?
Something is strange about this. I know when I don't or can't complete a job I don't assume some magical force, on faith, will finish for me.
Then you're not wearing rose colored glasses and smoking enough pot.
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Then you're not wearing rose colored glasses and smoking enough pot.
:lmao:
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Hummm, lets see, people want to live on an island that can't support them.......... :loser:
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Has anybody considered getting a phone?
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I hear the roaming fees are a bitch.
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Hummm, lets see, people want to live on an island that can't support them.......... :loser:
It was supporting them...just not in the style they wanted.
Hey sounds a little like DUmmies and socialism, huh.
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I don't get it. If the supply ship was stuck on one island, did not some one put two and two together to realize the other island on the route did not get their supplies. Shouldn't this have been a mater of just letting someone know those folks needed supplies because the intend shipment was not going to make it?
Something is strange about this. I know when I don't or can't complete a job I don't assume some magical force, on faith, will finish for me.
You're right, there is something odd about this story.
How did they intend to pay for their suplies had they received them.
Who were these people that wanted to live on this island in the first place that had little fresh water.?
The supply ship that got stuck on another island, did anyone go rescue the crew.?
Sorry folks, not something I will worry about.