Equusearch and Families Ask For Your Help

Page 1  Search Suspended

Page 2  The Story

Page 3  About the Nina

Page 4  Dyche Family

Page 5  Evi Nemeth

Page 6  Matt Wootton

Page 7  Kyle Jackson

Page 8  Danielle Wright

Page 9 RCCNZ
Page 10  To the Families
Page 11  What Went Wrong?
Page 12  Last Message From Nina Crew
Page 13  Family of Nina Crew Appeal For Search Funds
Page 14  Family Anxious For Search To Begin
Page 15  RCCNZ Less Than Cooperative in New Nina Search
Page 16  Third Day of Search, Funding Needed
Page 17  New Zealand Responds
Page 18  Equusearch Seeks Satellite Specialist
Page 19  A New Era Of Cooperation
Page 20  Wild Speculation No Help

Page 21  Sailboat Washes Up On Beach
Page 22  Nina Fund
Page 23  Nina Makes Prime Time
Page 24  Kyle Jackson, Hiya Mom!
Page 25  U.S. Coast Guard Endangers Lives of Nina 7

PAGE 26, Equusearch and Nina Families Ask For Your Help

Page 27  Apathy From US Officials
Page 28  Families Seek More Funding
Page 29  Standing up to Uncle Sam

Page 30  Possible New Location of Nina

Page 31  Reason For Hope Rescue After 76 Days At Sea

Page 32  Breaking News Delayed
Page 33 Positive Despite the Negatives
Page 34  Tomnod Saves Lives
Page 35  Holding

Page 36  Tasman Takes Two

Page 37  91 Days Lost At Sea
Page 38  Your Calls Needed

EQUUSEARCH and Families Ask For Your Help!

High level strategy has been taking place on a daily basis in the search for the Nina, a 1928 schooner that disappeared in the Tasman Sea on June 4th, 2013.  Equusearch, which advises the families, has pulled together a team of experts which would make the war room at the Pentagon blush.  We are not at liberty to say what all of the tactics and technology being considered consist of.  Suffice it to say, Equusearch finds missing people which law enforcement and even the military can't find for a reason.

A press conference has been called by the families of the Nina crew in which some of this information will be revealed.  It is one of those kinds of press conferences you sure don't want to miss if you want the latest scoop.  This is going to be a "scoop".

The first thing TES would like you to do is to call the U.S. State Department, or email them, and ask them how they could, in conscience, hold up a search for seven people.  Someone has a crystal ball and they are chanting in an unknown language.  Another way to say it is, "what the hell are they smoking?"  


No one knows what happened to the Nina and her crew.  That includes the Rescue Coordination Center New Zealand, RCC-NZ and that certainly includes the U.S. Government which has steadfastly refused to lift a finger to help in this effort.  To put the brakes on families who have, I am going to use the b-word here, the balls, to continue the valiant search for 7 souls, is unconscionable. 

Yet, the U.S. government has sent the families to see a division of the U.S. State Department whose primary function is to bring home U.S. citizens who have passed away abroad and help victims.  Our government is going to be embarrassed when 7 people are found alive.  Heads could roll over the public relations fall-out.  It could be the kind of fall out that costs political offices or naval careers.  


IT IS URGENT, you call the Office of Overseas Citizens Services, Crisis Management. Speak to Desk Officer, Mrs. Linda P. McFadyen.  Ask her to peer into her crystal ball and take a puff of whatever it is she is smoking.  If she can't tell you where the Nina crew is, then ask her to pass this case back to the search and rescue professionals who can bring the Nina crew home.


EDITORIAL COMMENT:  When I realized the U.S. government was not helping the families of the Nina crew search for their lost ones, but instead had referred them to McFadeyn for the purposes of making arrangement for sailors lost at sea, I was so angry I was shaking.


Desk Officer McFadeyn does not know where the Nina crew is.  


When we rob people of hope, we rob America of it's soul.


Please call McFadeyn:

Here is the number:  1-202.485.6106.

IF YOU DON'T MAKE THIS SIMPLE CALL, WHO WILL?

You can also email:   MCFADYENLP@STATE.GOV )

Press Conference

August 1st, 3:00 P.M. Local Time (GMT-5)

NASA HILTON, HOUSTON, TEXAS

THE NINA FUND

Mail checks to:

Texas EquuSearch SV Nina Search Fund
P.O. Box 395
Dickinson, Texas 77539
Office: (281) 309-9500
Fax: (281) 534-6719
Toll Free: (877) 270-9500

Or use PayPal or Credit Card

Or, mail checks directly to:
Texas EquuSearch SV Nina Search Fund
c/o Amegy Bank215 FM 517 Road West
Dickinson, TX 77539
Attention: Ms. Alicia White
(281) 337-9390

Schooner SV NINA Search Updates

Visit this page for updates on the search for the SV Nina. First update is planed for end of day July 28, 2013.

YOU ASKED,   "WHAT CAN I DO?"  - - - - - DO THIS:

1.             Call the U. S. Department of State, Call John Kerry, 

and ask Linda what she knows about the numerous exigent requests for the DoS to make the approval and authorize Texas EquuSearch to access the information and data we need, including the US Coast Guards SAROPS software in order to help save 7 lives.

2.               Donate and call your most wealthy friends to donate to help us save seven (7) lives.

Recent Activity and News

(worth reading, viewing and listening to: You will definitely learn something)

Nina Awareness via TV and Radio Media:

·        July 26, CBS News about Nina and search efforts 

·        YouTube video 

·        Sept. 2011 video about Scotch Bonner’s 130-day ordeal in the Tasman Sea and was successfully rescued

·        July 24, creation of Help is find our loved ones flyer  

·        July 21, Search Resumes for Missing Yacht, Otago Daily Times 

·        July 20 New Zealnd Radio TES SV Nina Search 

·        July 10, New Zealand Channel 3 News 

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·        SV Nina Search Interview/Media links:

o       Radio New Zealand Audio file: 10:30PM CDT -- 3:30PM NZ time www.7-1-3.com/TES/NINA/13071702.MP3

o       KATC Wednesday, July 17.2013 

o       Lafayette interview with Ralph 30 minutes audio, unedited, uncensored

·        July 16, Ricky Wright, father of Danielle Wright requests help 

·        Facebook updates, access  Texas EquuSearch at Face Book fan page

Search Assistance Resources:

·        July 24 secure VIP Premium membership to Buoy Weather to help understand wind and current patterns in the Tasman Sea

·        Requests for donations to continue Nina search www.7-1-3.com/TES/NINA/DONATE

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U.S. Coast Guard Places Lives at Risk they are supposed to Protect:

LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA U.S.A. July 28, 2013 ------ Texas EquuSearch needs your help to alleviate US Department of State (DoS) red-tape hassles. These problems have placed the lives of 7 people at risk. Your participation could solve it. 

Volunteer experts of the successful search team Texas EquuSearch were called on Monday July 8 by the families of those missing for advice and help after the New Zealand authorities stopped searching on July 4. EquuSearch was the all-volunteer charity that assisted Lafayette to better organize its search for 20 year old Mickey Shunick a year ago. Danielle Wright also from Lafayette is one the seven (7) dedicated and experienced sailors onboard the schooner S/V Nina, a famous award winning sailing race yacht. 

The Nina and her seven (7) crew members departed Opua New Zealand bound for Newcastle Australia, 20 day trip across the open Tasman Sea. The last contact with the crew was on June 4 when they obtained a weather briefing using an Iridium satellite telephone. There has been no contact since. 

Texas EquuSearch created a special project and a special fund for its case number 13-1371 to allow donors to designate that their monies to the search for the Nina and the seven (7) loved ones. Over $100,000 has been raised so far to fund 12 visual searches by twin engine aircraft off the eastern coast of Australia. The 12 searches saw no sign of the schooner Nina. 

Texas EquuSearch volunteers contacted the New Zealand, Australian and US governments for help to continue the search for the seven (7) loved ones.  Additional data and information was requested including satellite imaging, environmental data and access to US Coast Guard software to perform independent ocean drift modeling and predictions called SAROPS. So far all requests have been acknowledged and are tied up in red-tape at the US State Department in Washington, DC. There has been dragging of feet and misguided polices that require the permission of New Zealand for the US DoS to allow Texas EquuSearch access to and use wildly distributed software it needs to save 7 lives. 

Even that did not stop the persistent Texas EquuSearch volunteers and they have sought direct access to commercial sources of the software and the satellite images. This has been unfortunate and extremely frustrating and very slow; the amount of contacts and referrals have driven an overwhelming number of telephone calls, messages, emails and independent research to locate the right data from the right source from the right expert. The data is known to exist but is restricted from US citizen access due to US government policies. In this case all we want to do is save seven (7) lives. 

We need your help. It’s not the little guys, who are the government paid technical experts stopping us: it’s the mother-hen in Washington, DC stopping us. We want you to:

1.             Call the U. S. Department of State, under John Kerry, Office of Overseas Citizens Services Desk Officer Mrs. Linda P. McFadyen at +1 (202) 485-6106  email: MCFADYENLP@STATE.GOV ) and ask her what she knows about the numerous requests for the Department of State to make the approval and authorize Texas EquuSearch to access the information and data we need, including the US Coast Guards SAROPS software.

2.               Donate and call your most wealthy friends to donate to help us save seven (7) lives.

THE NINA FUND

Mail checks to:

Texas EquuSearch SV Nina Search Fund
P.O. Box 395
Dickinson, Texas 77539
Office: (281) 309-9500
Fax: (281) 534-6719
Toll Free: (877) 270-9500

Or use PayPal or Credit Card

Or, mail checks directly to:
Texas EquuSearch SV Nina Search Fund
c/o Amegy Bank215 FM 517 Road West
Dickinson, TX 77539
Attention: Ms. Alicia White
(281) 337-9390

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