Why would possible Navy detection of implosion on Sunday be PARFy? I would think/hope we have undersea listening stations all over the place, and I’d imagine we don’t disclose much about them or their capabilities. If the Navy quietly informed the CG on Sunday and the searchers used that info to identify a possible location (as is being reported), that’s fine. If the Navy didn’t disclose anything to anyone, that’s fine too - to me. These are secret national security assets after all, and not to be compromised, whether that helps or hurts a search for a lost vessel is immaterial - again, my opinion only.
Funny story: I knew a guy who kayaked from California to Hawaii, solo. Took him two months, he ran into storms and huge seas when he had to paddle all night to stay upright, dead calms with no wind for his little sail, and dead zones where there were no fish, he ran out of food, was eating his toothpaste, thought he was going to die. He was out of communication the whole time, this was in the 80s, all he had was a sextant. His family asked the Navy to search for him, Reagan said no. Ed told me, on one of our Baja kayak trips ten years later, that he ran into a Navy ship out there and asked them to tell his family he was alive. The ship said, in effect, “we were never here and we didn’t see you, goodbye”. That’s not in the few articles about his trip. I don’t know if it’s in the book he recently wrote about the trip, which I have but haven’t read yet. I am not sure if he might have hallucinated it.
https://paddlingmag.com/trips/ed-gillet-s-63-day-solo-odyssey/
Another thing he told me was that one day he was sighting his sextant and something was blocking his sightline, he was frustrated and didn’t understand, then it finally dawned on him that it was one of the Hawaiian island peaks.
Most impressive guy I’ve ever known. Before the Hawaii crossing, he spent two years kayaking around South America. A drug gang captured him, demanded his money and drugs, said they would kill him, he got mad and said he didn’t have any money or drugs and was going to leave on his boat and they could kill him if they wanted to. They laughed and said he was crazy, and left.
One trip I did with him, we were out of sight of land and paddling into the wind for eight hours, at the bottom of the swells all you could see was water, at the top all you could see was sky, people were puking and getting towed by other kayaks, he dead reckoned us to some tiny island off Baja and while we were all laying in the sand exhausted he slipped off with his speargun and came back with rockfish that we ate raw from a Frisbee. On the return trip it was glassy smooth, only took four hours, he saw spouts and steered us in front of migrating blue whales, we watched a blue whale surface in front of us then submerge and glide barely under our boats.
Sorry for the digression. Was thinking I’d rather be terrified in a kayak somewhere off Baja than get into something like that submersible. We were a hell of a lot safer out there, and I got to see a blue whale up close.