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By Dan Drake 7/05/02
ON THE ROCKS IN SEA
ISLE (BOAT ACCIDENT)
Date: Friday, July
6, 2001
Section: Region
Edition: Atlantic, Cape May & Cumberland
Page: C1
Byline: By JIM McELHATTON Staff Writer
CAPTION:
HIGH AND DRY
Spectators appear bewildered as marine salvagers work to free a pleasure
boat that ran atop rocks in Townsends Inlet near Sea Isle City on
Wednesday. Seven people were rescued; no one was injured. Officials hope
to free the craft today.
Salvage crews spent Thursday trying to remove a motorboat that ran atop
a
jetty off 93rd Street on Wednesday night. They will return to finish the
job today.
Four adults and three children were rescued from the boat after it struck
the jetty around 9:30 p.m., U.S. Coast Guard officials said.
The occupants, whose names were not released, were not seriously injured.
Petty Officer Raul Saez, of the Coast Guard's Townsends Inlet station,
cited a combination of poor weather and human error for the accident.
He said the boaters were among dozens who headed offshore to watch a July
Fourth fireworks display.
The boaters made a fast retreat to the back bays after thunderstorms
rolled in, Saez said.
Coast Guard crews brought the seven boaters to shore in a 21-foot
inflatable boat. They were then taken to Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital
in Cape May Court House by volunteer rescue squads from Sea Isle City
and
Dennis Township, Saez said.
Salvage workers from Northstar Marine Inc. of Sea Isle City tried to
remove the boat Thursday, as dozens of curious onlookers watched from
the
shoreline on blankets and beach chairs.
In what they said was a time-consuming process, salvage workers propped
the boat up with pulleys, then dragged it along a runway they made from
timber and plywood.
Ryan McKenna, of Northstar, said that crews would try to move the boat
off
the jetty and onto a trailer at low tide today.
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