Rescue At Sea
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Kate | Wednesday, January 19, 2005 |
Ottawa Men in 12-Metre Boat Rescued at Sea by U.S. Aircraft Carrier (Nealenews)
An Ottawa man and two friends ran into trouble in their sailboat, off the coast of North Carolina.
Glynn says he and his friends - John Rae, 44, and Peter Goodeve, 39 - had a satellite phone on board the sailboat, but they didn’t have a phone number for the U.S. Coast Guard. However, on an old receipt they found a number for a Cape Hatteras marina and were able to place their distress call. While they abandoned ship for a lifeboat, the coast guard called the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier on an exercise in the area. The Roosevelt’s captain turned its 91,000 tons around, and dispatched two helicopters with rescue divers “As we were floating in the life raft, one of the divers just popped over the edge of the raft as casual as could be,” Glynn says. “He was, like, ‘Hi, how are you doing? Great, we’re going to get you out of here.’”
About the Author: Kate is a freelance commercial and automotive airbrush artist living in Saskatchewan, Canada. She was one of the original guest bloggers at OTB in November 2004 and soon joined the permanent stable, contributing through January 2007.
Eventually, she turned to writing full time at her own blog, small dead animals, which was voted the Best Canadian Blog in the 2004 Weblog Awards and has been generally considered that country's best blog ever since.
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Amazing how useful and flexible those aircraft carriers are - everything from rescuing two Canadians to distributing aid over an entire tsunami stricken area.
Make that three Canadians...
And to think, Canada used to have a Navy has 4th largest surface fleet in the world. Not any more.
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