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| - | ==== Rescued Kayaker........ ==== | ||
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| - | **Pmarcus** \\ | ||
| - | 05/22/08 #4406 | ||
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| - | Just for your info........yesterday about 3:30 I noticed two paddlers crossing the bay about\\ | ||
| - | 1/4 mile outside Squalicum Harbor (where I work). The wind was building out of the SE and\\ | ||
| - | they were paddling in the trough very slowly.....when I headed up the dock from our work\\ | ||
| - | boats about 30 minutes later I thought I would peek across the bay to see where they had\\ | ||
| - | ended up and whether "Hilburn and Wermus" were yet again sprinting around the\\ | ||
| - | course......I saw two boats and one upper body, thinking that they were experienced, I\\ | ||
| - | gave them the benefit of the doubt and waited to see if the other "upper body" appeared,\\ | ||
| - | all I saw was the one boat trying to right and still only one upper body (sharks???). I ran\\ | ||
| - | back down to our work boat grabbed one of my fellow work mates and booked out of the\\ | ||
| - | harbor in our high speed 42 foot work boat, okay maybe we exceeded the 4 knot speed\\ | ||
| - | limit. We arrived about half way out to the outfall buoy....needless to say he was happy to\\ | ||
| - | see us..... being in the water for (I am not sure) approx. from when I started to watch to\\ | ||
| - | the time we got there 7 to 8 + minutes, he was wearing a "tank top", shorts and sandals,\\ | ||
| - | life jacket and surprisingly suffering from only a few hypothermic symptoms....we threw\\ | ||
| - | him in the cabin (we didn't throw him hard)... and watched and escorted his (a her, I might\\ | ||
| - | add who didn't capsize) paddling mate back to the harbor......to make a short story\\ | ||
| - | longer......no we didn't get a million dollar reward, bummer, the Coast Guard had not been\\ | ||
| - | notified before I called in, even though it was a sunny day and a fair number of other\\ | ||
| - | boaters were on the water they had not been seen, they did not have a whistle or vhf, and\\ | ||
| - | yes the guy was trying to impress his girlfriend....whoooops......SO be careful when you\\ | ||
| - | are trying to set up your friend in a sea kayak for "Ski to Sea," and they say "yeah, I have\\ | ||
| - | been in a kayak before!" (your mother with a trained eye on the water is not always\\ | ||
| - | watching.........) Peter | ||
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