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"Things might have been different," Wolf tells you in an interview. "I can't say the fake call killed them. But it certainly lessened their chances."
Wolf says bogus distress calls have become a real problem. "This is the first case that I know of where it was a factor in a rescue," he adds. "It definitely influenced the way we responded."
Wolf says the Coast Guard is reviewing its actions.
More detailed instructions on how to distinguish hoaxes from real calls are being sent to radio monitors with increased urgency because of the Sol E Mar sinking, he says.
But Wolf says even if the fake call hadn't come in, the Sol E Mar crew might never have been rescued, because the boat apparently sank before the crew could give its location.
"If I could change anything, I would have given them five more seconds on the radio," Wolf says.
"The Coast Guard saved 6,000 people last year. I just wish we could have rescued two more."
 
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