jarhead
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Didn't have much time to post this earlier. Friday night we visited 83searay at the dock and had a little scare. One of the guys there fell off the dock and was face down in the water.
I was walking away when it happened so I didn't see him go in. A couple of the guys were throwing life rings at him and when I saw him face down and not responding I ran to the end of the dock with a neighbor's zodiac, thew it in and paddled by hand to him.
When i pulled his head up, he wasn't breathing so I tried to get him in the dinghy with no luck since he went about 280lbs. and the dinghy wasn't fully inflated. I was hanging on to him giving him chest compressions and after a couplr minutes of this while drifting up river he started breathing, but verry shallow. 83searay met me at the bridge with a line so he could pull us to shore just in time for the paramedics to get there.
He's out of the hospital now and doing good. I wish our boat was in already since it would have caught him!
After several calls to 911 with no answer, the Coast Gaurd was called on the radio and dispatched Milwaukee Fire Dept.(kind of a scary thaught).
As usual, the reporters had everything wrong, as did the police. The first article said he was "intoxicated" since we all had a few beers.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/94649689.html
I was walking away when it happened so I didn't see him go in. A couple of the guys were throwing life rings at him and when I saw him face down and not responding I ran to the end of the dock with a neighbor's zodiac, thew it in and paddled by hand to him.
When i pulled his head up, he wasn't breathing so I tried to get him in the dinghy with no luck since he went about 280lbs. and the dinghy wasn't fully inflated. I was hanging on to him giving him chest compressions and after a couplr minutes of this while drifting up river he started breathing, but verry shallow. 83searay met me at the bridge with a line so he could pull us to shore just in time for the paramedics to get there.
He's out of the hospital now and doing good. I wish our boat was in already since it would have caught him!
After several calls to 911 with no answer, the Coast Gaurd was called on the radio and dispatched Milwaukee Fire Dept.(kind of a scary thaught).
As usual, the reporters had everything wrong, as did the police. The first article said he was "intoxicated" since we all had a few beers.
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/94649689.html