> But Brian Baker, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, told Forbes that the couple were not on board his yacht, named Launchpad. The yacht crew had been operating on a different radio channel, Baker told Forbes. “The assist was already under way” by the time they reviewed the broadcast, he said.
This is almost certainly a lie, or at best, incompetence - Maritime law requires constant monitoring VHF Channel 16, which is what the distressed vessel would have been communicating on (this is the default channel for communicating emergency).
If you're on a working channel, you're allowed to deviate from this, but for most vessels of this size, you'd have multiple VHF radios, and one always on 16. They just ignored it.
> But Brian Baker, a spokesperson for Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, told Forbes that the couple were not on board his yacht, named Launchpad. The yacht crew had been operating on a different radio channel, Baker told Forbes. “The assist was already under way” by the time they reviewed the broadcast, he said.
This is almost certainly a lie, or at best, incompetence - Maritime law requires constant monitoring VHF Channel 16, which is what the distressed vessel would have been communicating on (this is the default channel for communicating emergency).
If you're on a working channel, you're allowed to deviate from this, but for most vessels of this size, you'd have multiple VHF radios, and one always on 16. They just ignored it.