but very difficult to get through. shannon: this is what we heard from weather.com, the meteorologist said that forecast detected that a powerful and large pressure system would go many days in advance of january 3rd-4th. given the forecast intensity of that low powerful winds and high were given in the waters of the east coast. so what kind of obligation did the cruise company have? obviously this is an unfortunate situation, but also obviously, when you are traveling by ship on the ocean you may encounter bad weather. part of the guest ticket contract, a contract that binds the passenger on norwegian cruise states that you acknowledge that there may be conditions that are outside of the captain s control, outside of the ships management control. for any cruise line, there is continuous legal precedent that states. no implied warranty of states passage. they are not guaranteeing safe passage.
but very difficult to get through. shannon: this is what we heard from weather.com, the meteorologist said that forecast detected that a powerful and large pressure system would go many days in advance of january 3rd-4th. given the forecast intensity of that low powerful winds and high were given in the waters of the east coast. so what kind of obligation did the cruise company have? obviously this is an unfortunate situation, but also obviously, when you are traveling by ship on the ocean you may encounter bad weather. part of the guest ticket contract, a contract that binds the passenger on norwegian cruise states that you acknowledge that there may be conditions that are outside of the captain s control, outside of the ships management control. for any cruise line, there is continuous legal precedent that states. no implied warranty of states passage. they are not guaranteeing safe
we had no vhf, no range on it. no weather com, no ssb, single side band. we didn t have our ham radio. and our radio telephone inside the boat was not working. and also our iridium sat phone was not working. so we had no way to realize that we were about to enter a typhoon that had winds of 100 to 150 miles per hour and minimum wave heights of 40 foot in height. how it is possible that all of these different communications devices malfunctioned? they are dependent on the antenna. yes. and when the antenna went out, everything went out. so how did the women and their two dogs survive this long period at sea? they say they depend very heavily on a desalinization unit that basically purified ocean water for them to drink on board the sailboat.
reporter: yeah, i think ecstatic, euphoric, and very, very grateful to the u.s. navy and the crew aboard the uss ashland, which rescued them last week in the middle of the pacific ocean. it took them days to finally land here in okinawa, where they touched dry land for the very first time there is also concern because the 50-foot sailboat that they were sailing on and adrift for more than five months, that s their home, and they had to leave it out at sea because of the damage to it. that s why they ended up drifting for so many months in the first place. because storms they say broke the mast of their sailboat and flooded is the engine so they could not direct the vessel and messed up their communications. take a listen. we had no vhf, no range on it. no weather com, no ssb, single side band. we didn t have our ham radio.
the boat, messed up the motor and screwed up their telecommunications and sal light phones. take a listen. we had no vhf, no range on it. no weather com. no ssb, single side band. we didn t have a ham radio. and our telephone inside the boat was not working. and also our sat phone was not working. how is it possible that all of these different communications devices malfunctioninged? they are dependent on the antenna. when the antenna went out, everything went out. so check this out, the sailboat drifted for five months, they say, until a gps coordinate provided to the u.s. navy from a taiwanese fishing boat marked them at nearly 3,000 miles away from hawaii. they say they survived from large stockpiles of food, water