I got a situation for you boaters. Your steaming across buzzards bay, choppy waters little swelly visiabity to say 1/4 or less, conditions aren't terriable but often delt with on a chity afternoon. Your GPS is workin fine. You have the 2060 Garmin a $2500.00 unit.
Out of the corner of your eye you see what you think is someone go over board. What do you do. Press man over board button?? Alot people would panic and press the MOB. Once you do it asks you "are you sure you wanna save this postion" or something like that. You press yes. By that time depending on your speed you could be far enough away from that person and the situation can go horriably wrong, the spot you marked is way off. What is the correct thing to do? I was instucted to throw a near by item overboard such as a cooler, vest or anything that floats to mark the spot.
Even the best GPS and backs ups for back ups isn't going to replace our actions. So you didn't use your compass or gps and you still saved a life.