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Re: 66 Fishermen Pulled From Suddenly Adrift Wisconsin Ice Floes

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This happens almost every year on the upper Great Lakes, Superior, Huron and Michigan. The lakes are so large that they rarely freeze all the way across. And they are large enough and northern enough to have actual tidal effects. So if the 'tide' goes out and the wind shifts to off-shore, big chucks of ice can suddenly decide to move away from the land, and it can move faster than people can run. And in a situation like this, many of them probably drove their cars, suvs or snowmobiles out onto the lake, and while the Coast Guard will probably manage to rescue all of the stranded people, they can do nothing about anything that you left out on the ice. Your only hope is that the wind shifts and the ice flow might run up against the land somewhere and you might be able to go out and drive you vehicle back off. But if not, the lake will claim it in the spring with the thaw starts.




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66 Fishermen Pulled From Suddenly Adrift Wisconsin Ice Floes
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Sat, 06 Feb 21 1:17 AM
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66 Fishermen Pulled From Suddenly Adrift Wisconsin Ice Floes

Sixty-six fishermen in Wisconsin have been rescued after the massive sheet of ice they were fishing from suddenly broke away into three different floes on Thursday. “People were ice fishing, and the weather changes and warms up enough to release the ice from the shore, and it drifts away,” U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Andrew McGinnis told Wisconsin’s Door County Pulse.

The Coast Guard and other local officials came to the rescue of 66 people who were spread across three locations north of Lake Michigan’s Sturgeon Bay. Helicopters lowered rescue swimmers to the ice floes to bring the stranded fishermen to safety. The rescue effort took more than four hours and there were no injuries reported. “I imagine they all walked out when [the ice] was attached, before someone noticed it wasn’t anymore,” McGinnis said.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/66-fishermen-pulled-from-suddenly-adrift-wisconsin-ice-floes?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition


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