I Shouldn't be alive

The Discovery channel has this month been showing a lot of programs about survival. They made this month into a survival theme. Most of the survival shows, especially "I shouldn't be alive" have been quite interesting. This show in particular has always made me think, firstly, these people are always in situations where they cannot contact anyone, and secondly, these people have survived amazingly. 

What came to mind in last nights show was, what if they had a satellite phone? Granted, I work for a company that sells these phones and its simple to just think about this, but shouldn't people be more aware of these brilliant "life saving" devices. In last nights episode, a group of people where flying over Botswana. The light aircraft had problems and crashed in the bush in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately this plane didn't have a locater beacon installed (which most aircraft's of this size do). And so this group of people had to survive in the bush, injured and thirsty.

To cut the long story short, 2 members of the group eventually went for a very long walk (just barely made it) while the injured members stayed behind. They found a camp and managed to save themselves and the injured members a while later.

All I could think of was, these guys could have been safe if they had a satellite phone on them or in the plane. Of course, the phone could have not survived the crash but most of the satellite phones are built tough, especially the Iridium 9555. With this phone (which works anywhere in the world) they could have phoned for help and not have had to go through the troubles and torture they went through. But we can always say that after these types of things have happened.

My advice is, "prevention is better than a cure".