Posted on 05/11/2011 9:36:22 AM PDT by massmike
Witnesses say 13-year-old Austin Anglin was trapped underneath his family's boat for about 40 agonizing minutes before Coast Guard crews pulled him out of the water. For at least some of that time boats from several agencies could do little more than sit and watch, frustrating his helpless loved ones.
"I looked over at the game warden's boat and there were four people standing there in life jackets on the edge of the boat as I was telling them there's a boy under the boat," said Tony Edwards. "They did absolutely nothing." The two other agencies on the water, Tulalip Fire and Washington Fish & Wildlife did not have divers on board their boats.
The Everett Police Department's Marine Unit - including two divers – was on the scene, but they didn't go into the water because they did not have dive gear, nor rescue training.
Everett Police refused an on-camera interview but told us their marine unit is not a search and rescue team. It's a search and recovery unit. Also, on Saturday the team was working an "enforcement detail," meaning they were out to write tickets as boating season kicked off around Puget Sound.
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Sorry, for the terrible punctuation. That sentence should have read
“The woman can be seen between ice floes at the lower right, too weak to hold onto the life ring from the helicopter. Those on the bank did nothing.... except for Mr. Skutnik.”
Thank you
An American cop
Federalized, militarized, globalized, NWO law enforcement
At one point on the subway, the crazy guy is almost entirely naked, but he has his pants down around his ankles.
Obviously unarmed.
Unable to walk.
That's when you move in and use a taser, pepperspray or a good old fashioned tackle.
Read the article linked in Post #13. The boy did not die until the following morning......in the hospital.
I don’t know that there is a good answer for this. I went into a lake to save a kid. He was half my size or smaller. I’m a fairly strong swimmer. A drowning person is beyond reason. That little kid climbed on top of my head. It was a constant fight back to shallow water. I was in good shape, but I figured I was dead. I went down and pushed the kid towards shore. My feet hit the bottom, and I came charging ashore like the Marines in the movies. God bless the lifeguards and rescue swimmers.
Not really the "bigger issue" in the facts of the case. Trapped under the boat, wearing one wouldn't have done him any good. In 48 degree water he didn't have much time.
Some years back, a mother and daughter were in a car that went into the aqueduct in So. California. The mother surfaced and was ok, but the daughter was trapped in the car in about 7 feet of water.
My brother(a fireman)and his engineer were on scene first. The engineer knew that there was not enough time to wait for the dive crew so he used the breathing apparatus (the tank and mask unit used in fires) as a dive tank and pulled the girl out.
He had to make three attempts to free her and had the bell ringing on the tank to let him know it was almost empty.
She did suffer some brain damage, but at least she was saved. When the captain showed up at the site, he slammed the engineer in front of everyone for ‘misuse of county equipment’, which was then repeated in the local paper.
Needless to say, the engineer was a hero, and the captain got chewed by the senior brass for the PC disaster and shortly thereafter all fire engines near the aqueduct were supplied with scuba gear.
It doesn’t always work that way...I recall the following incident from years ago:
Shortly after NYS made wearing life preservers mandatory for kids 12 and younger on ANY boat under 65 feet, a family was out on the Long Island Sound in their 40+ foot yacht. A bad storm came up, the parents sent their kids down into the cabin and the family hightaied it to the nearest harbor. Before they could reach it, though, a series of waves caught them and the boat capsized and turtled, with the cabin underwater.
The two parents (not wearing life jackets) were able to swim under the boat and get out. All three kids (14, 12, and 11, IIRC) WERE wearing jackets, and because of the jackets’ buoyancy, the kids were unable to submerge and get out from under the boat.
The father submerged multiple times to try and extract the kids from their life jackets and/or the boat itself. Sadly, he was unable to do so and all three drowned while waiting for rescue. The children’s parents reported that all of the kids were very good swimmers, and knowing the yachting community on Long Island pretty well, I have little doubt that they were.
The fact is...you just never know.
Regards,
Once again, an illustration that the police are under
no obligation to protect anyone. NO OBLIGATION. Meaning
as happened here they can stand by and watch. They may
drive up, exit their cars and watch and do nothing.
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