100 days+... the search continues.

1928 racing schooner Niña

The 85-year-old staysail racing schooner Niña, left port on May 29 bound for Newcastle, Australia. The Capt., David Dyche and crew including, his wife and son, Rosemary Dyche and David Dyche IV, Evi Nemeth, Kyle Jackson, Danielle Wright, and Matthew Wootton were on board. They were last heard from on June 4th 2013 after weathering two storms.



Yesterday I watched a trailer from the new Robert Redford Movie, All is Lost, and it made a lump raise up in my throat.  ALL is NOT lost...






It has been over 100 days since the sailing schooner Niña has gone missing in the Tasman sea. 100 days is a long time... but not the record.  There has been no evidence that the vessel sank suddenly, no wreckage, floatsom, nothing.

The search continues...  family and friends know the captain and crew are survivors. ( read about the top 10 Sea Survivors here.)

Image of Life raft found on Tomnod

As I understand it there are over 8,000 people who are or who have searched on Tomnod to find what looks like either a boat or life raft. There was what appeared to be a life raft that was found, and we are trying to locate it on newer images.  Current images were posted from Sept. 9th. We need more eyes to help the search.

If you can spare a few minutes, please help us search these Tomnod images.



There is also a petition to have the government use the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) to acquire, and analyze, satellite imagery of the appropriate areas to detect a small boat or life raft.  This is equipment our government already has and it sounds like it would be a rather small matter for them if they would do it.  I understand that it would be a huge asset in finding the Nina!

Please take a moment and Sign The Petition



We need to keep the Niña in the forefront of the media and on google until something is found.


Join the search at  Holding Hope for the Niña,

Follow the progress at Bringing Home the Niña and Her Crew.

Or

Texas Equuinsearch Nina Updates page

Donations can be made at the following: Donate to Search for the Niña

If you do nothing else, share this post and any other information you see about the Nina and her crew and those of you who have tweeter, please tweet the hash tag  #ninarescue.

PS. IF Any one knows Robert Redford, or the director J.C. Chandor or anyone else related to the production of the movie All is Lost... please forward this to them directly.  Thanks!


and please think about this, while you are taking a hot shower, drinking your morning coffee or eating your Friday night pizza...  the 7 lost at sea can't... until we find them.

Life is simple... enjoy the journey!

I wish for them to have wind in their sails...

1928 Racing Schooner ~ Niña

Have you ever had something that you were just drawn to do, for no particular reason, you just knew you had to do it... That happened to me around the 28th of June, when a high school class mate, Kim Adair, posted asking for prayers for a missing sailboat...

Most of you know for about the last 90 days or so I have been working with a group of people to find the sailing vessel of a high school acquaintance.  The famous racing schooner, the Niña has been lost in the Tasman sea since the 4th of June, the Captain and crew are as follows... Capt. David Dyche III, his wife, Rosemary, their son, David Dyche IV, Matthew Wootton, Kyle Jackson, Danielle Wright and Evi Nemeth.


I decided to start a Facebook page so people had somewhere to share their stories, some place for supporting the families and each other as friends.  I don't know why... I just did, and I asked another high school acquaintance to assist in managing the page... which by the way, was a great choice.  Many thanks to you, Eugene.

It is really nice and if you go to the early posts and photos, you will see family and friends gathering for candle light vigils as the NZ RCC searched the Tasman for signs of the S/V Nina or her crew. Then somewhere around the 4th or 5th (not sure which day the actual decision was made) of July NZ RCC decided to suspend their search. This is where the family's took hold of the the bull and plowed forward taking the search private.

Soon after NZ RCC suspended their efforts, Ricky Wright, Danielle's father, contacted Texas Equusearch .  With TES's support, spearheaded by Ralph Baird the search has evolved and so has our Facebook group.  It is currently supporting the efforts of visual searches of maps on the Tomnod site. There is a second Facebook Page that supports the news updates and fund raising efforts.  There is also a blog that is written by Tim Paynter.  Tim has had the experience of being lost at sea, and knows first had of the difficulties to survive and there is a page on the Equusearch site with updates of their search efforts.


With all that being said, I often times find my self sitting here at my computer, sometimes at the end of the day, sometimes in the early morning going through the posts, adding new members, searching the images on Tomnod and I wonder...  I wonder, how do you live for days on end on a life raft with 6 other people. We take so much for granted in our every day lives, a fresh meal, hot shower, cold glass of water, toilet, soft bed, warm blanket etc... etc... etc...
 
They are adventures after all, but did they ever think it would go to this extreme.

I admire  David and Rosemary, they chose not to wait. They figured out how to do the daily and live the adventure, side stepping the when this, then that, loop.

There are many reasons to believe that they are adrift either in a life raft or on the disabled vessel, just go to

Examples of drifting yachts

one of the pages and you will find stories of vessels presumed to be sunk (with no evidence) or that were disabled and abandoned, just to show up months later still in tack.  David's twin sister Cherie believes that Nina will bring the home... Nina always has.


I know this blog is new and I don't have a lot of follows yet. I am posting this because, as Tim would put it, I am a spoke in the wheel and will take you to the hub. There you will find the story.

So if you can spare a few dollars or spare a few minutes, please join the search. Donate at TES and instruct them to use your donation for Nina search in the notes to seller. Take a few minutes and search some maps on Tomnod. and share, re-post, cross post, like,join and follow anything you find about the sailboat Niña and her crew. This way we continue to gain momentum, and keep Nina at the top of the news feeds until she and her crew are found.

 Chose to live life, chose to share in the hope, chose to pay it forward and help to save 7 souls lost at see.

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Life is simple... enjoy the journey.