Coast Guard and a Good Samaritan with an airboat rescue 18 snowmobilers from ice sheet that broke off Lake Erie in Ohio

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[algore]

The United States Coast Guard tweeted on Sunday that it was conducting a 'mass rescue' after 18 snowmobilers were trapped on a slab of ice that broke off a heavily frozen Lake Erie.

The U.S. Coast Guard Great Lakes announced on Sunday that an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Detroit noticed nearly 20 people on an ice floe near Catawba Island, Ohio in Lake Erie at around 1pm.

The stranded snowmobilers 'were looking for a route back to land' after the ice floe they were standing on broke apart from the rest of the ice on Lake Erie.

At that point, the Coast Guard reports, the helicopter 'lowered its rescue swimmer and began hoisting operations' while an airboat from Station Marblehead prepared to rescue the crew.

[algore]

Samaritan was very far from home eh?

[WMarshal]

If you know what you are doing and are willing to risk your snowmobile you can ride a snowmobile overwater. One mistake though in freezing cold water and you are dead.

Here is a video of someone doing just that: https://youtu.be/wCu6evrKqsI

[Beagle8U]

Those 18 snowmobiles will wind up a structure in lake erie.

The coast guard doesn’t machines.

[xp38]

Don’t you hate it when your ice slab breaks off?

[equaviator]

“MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Detroit”

Some, if not all of the USCG AS Detroit serve out of Selfridge Air National Guard Base, which is a lot closer to Mt. Clemens than it is to Detroit.

[dangus]

More good news: can you imagine how Gordon Lightfoot would come up with a song for THIS?

[OSHA]

More good news: can you imagine how Gordon Lightfoot would come up with a song for THIS?

I'll ask him on 9/29/2019, 3/31/2020, 10/1/2020, 5/18/2021, 5/15/2021, 9/24/2021 May 17, 2022 at Columbia Missouri Theater.

[farming pharmer]

No, the owners will be ticketed and pay for the recovery of those machines. Same thing happens in Michigan’s Lake St. Clair every winter.

[woodbutcher1963]

You are correct. The same thing happens every year in NH.

The owner of the snowmobile/ATV/vehicle has to pay a scuba diver/barge service to dive down into the water and remove that machine from the bottom of the lake.
A few years ago WMUR here in NH did a story about a guy that did that for a living. He was a former Navy Seal.

[farming pharmer]

The owner of the snowmobile/ATV/vehicle has to pay a scuba diver/barge service to dive down into the water and remove that machine from the bottom of the lake.

The north end of Lake St. Clair is fairly shallow, about 6 - 10 feet. Guys routinely lose their snowmobiles, trucks and ice fishing equipment.

I've heard retrieving a truck or snowmobile can be very expensive, ticket + recovery costs + and EPA fine for an oil sheen on the lake. Probably runs thousands of dollars.

[ridesthemiles]

BUT-—THE ENVIROS will sink a ship to create a fish haven,.....

[nascarnation]

I remember back in 78 or so the winter was so cold that people walked from Cleveland to Canada on the ice, although it’s a risky proposition.

[woodbutcher1963]

Yes, I suspect the government fines could vary well be more than the cost of removing the machine from the lake floor.

IF you are riding a snowmobile across the lakes in NH, the first thing you learn is if you see any open water ahead, YOU SPEED UP.

[woodbutcher1963]

They drain all the oil and other petroleum products out first.

Steel/iron is not going to damage/contaminate the water. Oil, diesel, gasoline will.

The only vessel left in US waters with oil/fuel in it to my knowledge is the USS Arizona.

[UB355]

The cost can range from $1,000 to $5,000 depending on the size of the vehicle and the depth at which it is sunk, according to Don Herman, owner of Sunk? Dive and Ice Service.

[semimojo]

THE ENVIROS will sink a ship to create a fish haven,.....

You mean fishermen and divers? Those enviros?

[moovova]

What an incredibly long run over the water.