Thursday, March 28

Driver Ejected; Boat Circles. See Video

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Two boaters who were ejected from their 24-foot center console in Marshfield, Massachusetts, were rescued by a good Samaritan nearby, but their boat kept running in a “circle of death” until Sea Tow managed to foul the prop and pull the emergency cut-off switch.

A dramatic video by the Marshfield Police Department shows the boat continuing to run in a tight circle after the boaters were ejected and saved. (You can see the video below.)

The police said the problems started about 10 in the morning when the harbor master got a call from Dana Blackman, the captain of the fishing vessel Finest Kind. Blackman reported that a center console was circling at a high speed near Farnham Rock buoy #6.

Blackman said his crew had pulled two men from the water after seeing one of them waving a white T-shirt. They were not injured.

As the boat kept circling, Michael DiMeo, the harbor master, closed a nearby beach and cleared a section of water near the boat as a security zone in case it changed direction.

The tight circling of a boat without anyone at the wheel is known as the circle of death because the boat can easily run over anyone who had been thrown out.

The two men on board the center console were not wearing life jackets and the driver did not have a tethered cut-off switch that would have killed the outboard motor if he moved away from the helm.

After a while, a Sea Tow boat arrived and floated a nylon tow line that caught in the circling boat’s prop. They then maneuvered alongside and pulled the cut-off switch. DiMeo said the boat had 40 gallons of fuel left and it could have kept circling for some time.

Read more and see the video here:

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/viral-video-2-people-rescued-from-sea-after-being-thrown-from-boat-in-circle-of-death-3139656

 

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