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"The man's snow machine became disabled, an ADPS spokesperson confirmed to Insider." https://www.businessinsider.com/stranded-man-alaska-rescued-apple-iphone-14

• macintux 4y ago
  Do we know whether they had a compass, as you felt they didn’t? Whether they had another emergency contact option? We know the driver was dressed appropriately. Mechanical failures happen.
  • textadventure 4y ago
    Sure, there are a plethora of things we don't know. But he was reportedly going from Noorvik to Kotzebue: https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5w https://imgur.com/a/GYfKk5w which is one tiny town in the middle of nowhere, to another slightly larger town in the middle of nowhere. The emergency alert was received at around 2AM, so he was doing this in the middle of the night. It stands to reason that when you are in such conditions, you should be prepared for circumstances such as "what happens if my means of transportation breaks down". It seems like a risk was taken, and when you take a risk and things go wrong and you need to be rescued, you are putting the lives of other people at risk. Maybe it was all completely justified, but on paper it doesn't seem that way.
    • datalopers 4y ago
      Noorvik gets 2-3 hrs of sunlight a day. The “middle of the night” argument doesn’t really hold for the arctic this time of the year. It’s basically always dark.
  • djcannabiz 4y ago
    i mean theres the compass on the iphone but i have no idea how accurate that is or even if works at high latitude. hopefully someone with more knowledge can enlighten us.