SUV slips from boat ramp

Island Packet Online ^ | June 13th, 2004 | NOAH HAGLUND

[tdadams]

A crowd gathered after this sport utility vehicle was driven to far down the boat loading area at the South Beach Marina in Sea Pines Saturday afternoon on Hilton Head Island and slipped into the water. Curtis Jenkins, wearing the white shirt, and Ronnie Williams with Tommy's Towing were trying to hook the car up and get it ashore.		A visitor to the island accidentally launched his sport utility vehicle into the water along with his boat at the South Beach boat ramp on Saturday, Sea Pines Security said. The man backed down the ramp with a trailer carrying his boat attached to his SUV at between 11 a.m. and noon, Sea Pines Security director George Breed said. When the trailer got stuck on a rock, the man got out to free it and everything -- the SUV, trailer and boat -- rolled back into the water. "It's pretty well submerged," Breed said at around 6:30 p.m., as a truck from Tommy's Towing was waiting for the tide to recede before pulling it out. "It should be extracted by the end of the day." Low tide was expected at 11:50 p.m. Breed did not know the man's age or hometown. There were no injuries. He could not recall a similar incident in 15 years.

[tdadams]

Anyone want to bet that alcohol was not involved here?

[MotleyGirl70]

D'OH

[tdadams]

ping

[theDentist]

"I notize your SUV vas qvite depressed."

[Savage Beast]

It wasn't a SUV, but, when we were teenagers, a friend's family car got caught in the surf on the south end of Hilton Head, right there on Calibogue Sound, and sank deeper and deeper into the sand. After a few weeks, the last we saw of it was the surface of the top. It was like slow quicksand.