Lost tourists

[Lee Zeltzer]

My name is Vincent Dupied and I am writing to you because I need your help. 

My little brother is hiking in panama with a friend. Yesterday he launched his distressed beacon very close from your area. 

We are currently in contact with the French embassy in Panama and they are currently sending helicopters to find them. 

This is their GPS position :
https://www.google.fr/maps/place/8%C2%B058'29.0%22N+82%C2%B028'12.0%22W/@8.9498173,-82.5571009,9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0?hl=fr
It is close from you.


I would like to know if you know guides who will be able to go there trying to find them. Obviously I will pay you for doing it. Please keep me informed if you think you can do it. I am very worried. They are serious guys so if they launched the distressed beacon something must have happened. 

Can you also warn all the guides around taht you may know and ask if they can go at the GPS position. Same thing I will pay for it.

My phone number is  [phone]

My mail address [e-mail]

Thanks very much for your help. 

Best regards.

Vincent

[Concerned]

Apparently they weren’t lost:

http://elsiglo.com/panama(...)-bocas-toro/23871583

They were not lost, they had not gone too far, they spent two nights at a Ngobe house, and they decided to use a sat phone because one of them had injured his arm (he had fallen).

See video of El Siglo, as from 00.49: 
- nunca nos perdímos = we never got lost
- nunca nos extraviamos = we did not walk too far
- tomímos las decisiones mas seguras = we made the right / safe decisions
- ...es una caminata de 3 días ... fuímos 2 días. = it is a hike of 3 days, but we did it in 2
- ... fué un camino difícil, con mucha lluvia = the hike was heavy, with much rain
- regresamos solamente porqué en el regreso callí y ... el brazo = we only turned back because on our way back … I fell… and injured my arm (he points at his arm)
- ...decidímos de quedar en la casa de una señora de la comunida Ngobe ... comimos... 2 noches en seguridad .... decidímos de llamar con satélite = we decided to spend two safe nights at the house of a Ngobe woman …. where we also received some food…. and we decided to call via sat phone ….

[wryawry]

Got a hitch in the heart there for a minute ......

[Karen Kennedy]

So happy ALL worked out. But, why did they send their distress signal?

[Elizabeth Worley]

They were lost and one of them was injured.

[Keith Woolford]

Because they were lost.

[Marion Torgany]

What happend to them?

[Keith Woolford]

They were located.

@GAEDPanama: Fuerza de Tarea Conjunta conformado por @Sinaproc_Panama @senanpanama rescata a franceses extraviados en BocasDelToro http://t.co/nGDo0wllVg

[Lee Zeltzer]

Good news.