Burlington, Vermont
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Several times in the past we've blogged about dramatic or interesing Coast Guard rescues that we overheard on the radio.
Today we heard another. Perhaps this is the strangest of all.
On the VHF radio we heard the ferry Valcour call the Coast Guard in Burlington. The ferry said that they spotted a scuba diver clinging to a buoy in the middle of the lake. They said that no boat was in his vicinity. No dive flag. Nothing to suggest how the diver got out there. The Coast Guard responded right away. They sent a rescue boat to the indicated buoy which was less than 3 miles from the Coast Guard station. They searched but found nothing.
Boy, that story would make a great opening episode in a Clive Cussler novel. But in this case it isn't fiction. It is truth.
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Seems to me that the ferry skipper needs to be hauled up on charges for not going to the rescue, if one was needed. Maybe what he saw was one crazy lone SCUBA person just checking out his position. I was going to say his/her, but no woman is that stupid.
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