The Coast Guard rescued 46 fishermen who were stranded after the ice sheet they were standing on broke off near Catawba Island in Lake Erie.
. He was on the ice for around 20 minutes before the cracks in the ice appeared."We didn’t know there was open water beyond us," he said.
"Thank God the Coast Guard was here for us,” Adkins told the newspaper."You live and you learn, I guess." The Coast Guard said that boats and helicopters were dispatched for what it termed a mass rescue. Amid rising temperatures,"the ice broke into multiple separate ice floes” and helicopter and airboat crews were able to rescue the fishermen. Local fire and EMS and other agencies and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources also assisted.
A helicopter from Coast Guard Air Station Detroit assists with the mass rescue of 46 people from an ice floe near Catawba Island, March 9, 2019.In 2009, there was another mass rescue of ice fishermen who were stranded on a large ice floe in Lake Erie,In that case 134 fishermen were stranded, and the fishermen had ignored cracks in the ice and high-wind warnings, and some even built a makeshift bridge across the cracking ice to reach a favorite fishing spot, the AP reported.
"Ice may look safe but it is difficult to determine the thickness visually and the increase in warm weather will continue to melt and weaken the ice," the Coast Guard
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