wvmedic
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Jun 3, 2008
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Well the morning started with a body recovery about five miles out of town at a popular local swimming place. A couple people in canoes found the body; he had been in the river a few days.
There was another drowning in one of our local rivers a little while later.
And I ended my shift with another drowning, this one hit closer to home for me. This one occurred at the ramp I use all the time, I did not know this person but had seen him from time to time on the water.
He was loading his boat on the trailer and witnesses said he went into the water and dove under his boat to fasten a chain; I?m not sure what kind of chain he would have been securing under the boat. But he didn?t surface; he had been under for around ten minutes before the divers found him. We did our best and the Dr. along with the ER staff worked there hardest, unfortunately he didn?t survive.
Sad thing is his Wife along with there seven year old child was in the boat and witnessed all of this, and he was only two years older than I am.
Please keep the families in you?re thoughts.
Jeff.
There was another drowning in one of our local rivers a little while later.
And I ended my shift with another drowning, this one hit closer to home for me. This one occurred at the ramp I use all the time, I did not know this person but had seen him from time to time on the water.
He was loading his boat on the trailer and witnesses said he went into the water and dove under his boat to fasten a chain; I?m not sure what kind of chain he would have been securing under the boat. But he didn?t surface; he had been under for around ten minutes before the divers found him. We did our best and the Dr. along with the ER staff worked there hardest, unfortunately he didn?t survive.
Sad thing is his Wife along with there seven year old child was in the boat and witnessed all of this, and he was only two years older than I am.
Please keep the families in you?re thoughts.
Jeff.
