Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 25, 2000, Winnipeg, Manitoba A14 Winnipeg free september 2000 germans rescued after nine Days adrift in Atlantic foursome survived on Rainwater Madrid four including a spent nine Days adrift on a Dinghy in the Atlantic with Only Rainwater to drink before they were rescued and flown to a Spanish the four a their two year old daughter and the Captain of their yacht set sail 13 from the North Western Spanish port of a bound for the but a Day As they headed for the Bay of an explosion and fire in the vessels engine forced them to abandon their yacht Sank within they spent the next nine Days afloat with no surviving on rain collected in a plastic Martina Hoffman told the associated press in a Telephone interview yesterday from her room at feral in the Northwestern port City of my Little girl Lisa is better she can talk and laugh and Shes a Hardy said now i feel but we were really Hoffman especially As the Days went by and nobody picked us who comes from the Small town of sche Torf in Northern said 11 boats passed but none apparently spotted although they fired four she said she spent most of the time hugging her Little girl to keep her warm and associated press Martina Hoffman kisses her husband Jorg after their Rescue at associated press 2 shipwrecked with family there were Waves of up to 10 metres and we were terribly cold and could Only sit up and hold she the first Day was not so but then the weather got worse and it rained and a tunisian cargo vessel plucked them from the water about 110 kilo metres from once aboard the ves Hoffman said they were treated As if they were in a hotel and were Given plenty of drink and but the Childs health was worrisome and on the tunisian ship radioed for help from a helicopter was flown out and at one moment during the Rescue panic spread when the child stopped breathing and had to be resuscitated in the the two men the Childs Jorg Hoffman and his the yachts were released from the 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go Down All kinds of Many popular cellphone models have a reprogrammed 911 function that allows users to summon help at the touch of a Button whether they want to or As a Canadas 911 dispatchers Are answering More so called phantom Calls than Ever and its Only a matter of time before tragedy ensues if it Hast its escalated a the Duzz of 3 lot in the last two shopping because now youve got mall private everybody and conversations ass Suffi couple of they throw the weve heard cellphone on their car they throw it in the drug deals go briefcase run Udnall we sit there listen a ing to some Guy kinds of singing to his radio things or having conver about 35 per cent of the Calls to 911 across Canada come from whose numbers or locations dont show up on a dispatchers computer screen the Way landline Calls dispatch managers estimate up to 40 per cent of wireless Calls Are forc ing operators to stay on the line for at least 60 straining to hear signs of an six other Calls can be answered in that said Deryk owner of sea Way 911 a private com Pany that serves some residents of Eastern the phantom Calls take up an enor Mous amount of said who on a recent night logged 17 silent cellphone Calls in just Over half an were going have a real Emer were going to have these Phan Tom Calls in the Middle of and the response time of getting the Call to ambulance or fire is going to be and while not All cellphone 911 Calls Are dispatchers Are just As helpless if theres no Way to Tell who calling or where they during one such Call in a Dis Patcher spent 45 agonizing minutes listening to a violent Domestic craning to hear clues to the callers Bloomfield its very hard on our absolute in Nova where municipalities Arent big enough to support their own 911 the provincial government runs the system As it has since provincial Law forbids the use of one touch 911 whether with a cell phone or a landline said Mike the provinces manager of 911 new Brunswick and Prince Edward Island have similar originally designed to ensure children Learned to dial the numbers so they could Contact 911 from any said the benefits of such a Law in the wire less he mean Nova Scotia dispatchers hear less but talk the sound of a cellphone transmitting from someones Back its a real Point of envy for said Toronto Alber abased Telephone giant telus was part of a Pilot project in May to test new technology in Calgary that can Trace cellphone numbers and pro vide a callers approximate that technology is due for a similar test in Ontario next but when it comes to phantom Many cellphone users Haven bothered to learn How to avoid making inadvertent said telus spokesman Nick its a Small Price to pay for the additional safety and Security of a he the great thing about what a cell phone does is it makes it easier to make a 911 which potentially makes it easier to save a culo that a huge upside to All of users can avoid accidental 911 Calls by disabling the on touch feature or using the key guard culo there Are also limitations to those secondhand emergency cellphones con to dial Only 911 that victims groups provide to battered Canadian press ;