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Kushtaka
Joined: 17 Dec 2013 Posts: 648 City/Region: Cordova
State or Province: AK
C-Dory Year: 1993
C-Dory Model: 22 Cruiser
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:54 pm Post subject: PFD love |
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Hello all,
I recently participated in a very sad Search and Rescue in which a commercial fisherman (stuck in port due to a gale) took his young step son out on a small zodiac.
Long story short, they capsized and the kid (wearing a life jacket) made it to a cabin where he was rescued by the USCG. Unfortunately he was the only one. We found his Step Dad about 50 feet away a week later after troopers and USCG had given up the search.
I end up doing this type of thing every other year or so near town.
Most auto accidents happen close to home, and it seems out here a lot of our boating fatalities do too. A PFD would have made the difference for every body I've helped recover, without exception. The one we never found, we know to have not been wearing a PFD, as he was observed falling in, and never seen again.
Please make good decisions and everyone please come home safe!!!! |
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BrentB
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 4419 City/Region: Greenwood
State or Province: IN
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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this story should be sticky
thanks for posting _________________ Brent Barrett |
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