{"id":17099,"date":"2018-05-01T15:32:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/survivor-stories\/atlantic-ocean-usa\/"},"modified":"2018-05-01T15:32:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:32:40","slug":"atlantic-ocean-usa","status":"publish","type":"survivor-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/survivor-stories\/atlantic-ocean-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Ocean, USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now let&#8217;s switch gears from emergency beacon technology to what it&#8217;s like to actually use one. Picture yourself as the professional skipper\/manager of a beautifully-built 2008 Atlantic 57 sailing cat well along on a recent delivery from the Chesapeake to St. Martin. You&#8217;re in t-shirt-and-shorts-at-night weather now, though blustery, and during your evening watch you&#8217;ve depowered the sail plan a bit more so that a mate can finish making dinner.<\/p>\n<p>But suddenly roaring out of the dark comes what was likely a tornadic waterspout that lifts and flips the whole catamaran so quickly you don&#8217;t even have time to reach the autopilot standby control, leaving the three of you to deal with an instantly upside-down world of water-filled main cabin, escape hatches, ditch bags and worry. Finally put yourself on the cat&#8217;s slippery bottom in the USCG thermal video (though of course its very existence is very good news).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now let&#8217;s switch gears from emergency beacon technology to what it&#8217;s like to actually use one. Picture yourself as the professional skipper\/manager of a beautifully-built 2008 Atlantic 57 sailing cat well along on a recent delivery from the Chesapeake to St. Martin. You&#8217;re in t-shirt-and-shorts-at-night weather now, though blustery, and during your evening watch you&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","survivor-category":[11],"terrain":[22],"survivor-event":[130],"survivor-cause":[49],"survivor-rescue":[137],"class_list":["post-17099","survivor-stories","type-survivor-stories","status-publish","hentry","survivor-category-boating","terrain-ocean","survivor-event-tornado","survivor-cause-boat-sinking","survivor-rescue-coast-guard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories\/17099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/survivor-stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"survivor-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-category?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"terrain","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/terrain?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-event?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-cause","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-cause?post=17099"},{"taxonomy":"survivor-rescue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acrartex.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/survivor-rescue?post=17099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}