A former section chief of Minami-Sanriku town who lost his colleagues in the twin tragedies thought that a life jacket equipped with a GPS function could help quickly locate people swept offshore ...

"I have a 21-foot offshore boat so I can go up to 50 miles out ... Someone else reflected on "rig-hopping" in the '70s, long before GPS or fish-finding sonar gear came along, with "only a ...