We had just finished dinner and the flippin box starts its dreaded obnoxious beeping. I grab it and it reads; “NEED TO RESPOND TO CARLIN BAY MAN FELL OVERBOARD 2380 CALL 2329 1823 042106”.
I kiss the wife and head for the car, light up and check into service at 1824. I check out at the boathouse, 8 miles away at 1830.
I’m the first one there so I grab my belt, main bag and toolbox and head for the door. I unlock everything and get the big boat started. As I’m doing that one by one the team starts showing up.
I get the rest of my gear loaded and help load every thing else and we get underway.
We were lucky and had calm water without a lot of debris to avoid.
While enroute we get a better location. I know that area is between 100’ and 125’ deep and with all the runoff vis will be nothing to talk about.
I’ll post more details later but for now the only diving we did was to check the bottom of a 54’ SeaRay Motor Yacht. What I found was a nice clean bottom with bright and shinny rudders and screws. They had just put it back in the water.
We are faced with a lot of unanswered questions at this point. The only two onboard were the husband and wife owners and he is missing.
I drove the vessel back to the marina and we secured for the night. Back at it at O630. Boy do we need the SS right now. Vis is about 18” with a light at the surface. Temp is 43df.
Here is the general area. More towards the right or east shore but still way out in the lake.
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=13&Z=11&X=321&Y=3293&W=1
We were the third EMS boat on scene out of 2 fireboats and 3 Sheriff boats. Some group in another big boat was tossing hooks in and criscrossing the area. ????
More later.
Gary D.
I kiss the wife and head for the car, light up and check into service at 1824. I check out at the boathouse, 8 miles away at 1830.
I’m the first one there so I grab my belt, main bag and toolbox and head for the door. I unlock everything and get the big boat started. As I’m doing that one by one the team starts showing up.
I get the rest of my gear loaded and help load every thing else and we get underway.
We were lucky and had calm water without a lot of debris to avoid.
While enroute we get a better location. I know that area is between 100’ and 125’ deep and with all the runoff vis will be nothing to talk about.
I’ll post more details later but for now the only diving we did was to check the bottom of a 54’ SeaRay Motor Yacht. What I found was a nice clean bottom with bright and shinny rudders and screws. They had just put it back in the water.
We are faced with a lot of unanswered questions at this point. The only two onboard were the husband and wife owners and he is missing.
I drove the vessel back to the marina and we secured for the night. Back at it at O630. Boy do we need the SS right now. Vis is about 18” with a light at the surface. Temp is 43df.
Here is the general area. More towards the right or east shore but still way out in the lake.
http://terraserver-usa.com/image.aspx?T=1&S=13&Z=11&X=321&Y=3293&W=1
We were the third EMS boat on scene out of 2 fireboats and 3 Sheriff boats. Some group in another big boat was tossing hooks in and criscrossing the area. ????
More later.
Gary D.