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guy under the bridge at Perdido Key during Sally
Posted on 9/19/20 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 9/19/20 at 12:47 pm
Story of the rescue
We delivered a barrel of gas to Lance and Michelle, the owners of Perdido Key RV Resort & Marina, and heard this story:
the guy under the bridge lived aboard a boat at the Oyster Bar & Marina. his neighbor's boat sank, pulling the dock and his boat over with it. he managed to escape, and hung on a barnacle covered piling as long as he could. he was in the water about 6 hours. eventually, he was washed upstream by the storm surge and managed to grab the bridge and climb onto the ledge in the middle of the intercoastal canal.
the folks at Perdido Key RV Resort & Marina saw him and called authorities. Apparently the sheriff and fire said there was nothing they could do. Two liveaboards (gerry ash and Marcus alt, i think) from the marina kayaked out and managed to get a line past the bridge that the trapped guy could grab, then went back to shore and pulled him in.
We delivered a barrel of gas to Lance and Michelle, the owners of Perdido Key RV Resort & Marina, and heard this story:
the guy under the bridge lived aboard a boat at the Oyster Bar & Marina. his neighbor's boat sank, pulling the dock and his boat over with it. he managed to escape, and hung on a barnacle covered piling as long as he could. he was in the water about 6 hours. eventually, he was washed upstream by the storm surge and managed to grab the bridge and climb onto the ledge in the middle of the intercoastal canal.
the folks at Perdido Key RV Resort & Marina saw him and called authorities. Apparently the sheriff and fire said there was nothing they could do. Two liveaboards (gerry ash and Marcus alt, i think) from the marina kayaked out and managed to get a line past the bridge that the trapped guy could grab, then went back to shore and pulled him in.
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Posted on 9/19/20 at 1:00 pm to High C
Crazy story but I’m fairly certain I would have left my boat before other boats next to me sunk
Posted on 9/19/20 at 1:02 pm to baldona
Glad he made it. Sally will go down as a boat event.
Posted on 9/19/20 at 1:08 pm to piratedude
Glad someone was there to save him. However, pretty stupid to ride out a hurricane in a boat, ln my opinion
Posted on 9/19/20 at 1:09 pm to baldona
makes sense..I had a feeling he was trying to ride it out on a boat in one of the marinas..but if you're going to do that he should have at least had a life jacket on..not to mention the guy telling the story state they had no idea the storm was going to be as bad as it was....
no one did.....huge miss
no one did.....huge miss
Posted on 9/19/20 at 1:31 pm to tgrbaitn08
according to google, Perdido RV and Oyster Bar are 685 feet apart. Perdido didn't lose any boats or dock. Oyster Bar lost all boats and docks, and ended up with the bow of a sail boat in the downstairs window.
a really pretty power catamaran broke loose from Oyster Bar and got hung up on the pilings at the Sea Tow/lil john pontoon rental. everything was relatively cool.....until the surge quit, the water dropped, and every piling punched through the hulls.
a really pretty power catamaran broke loose from Oyster Bar and got hung up on the pilings at the Sea Tow/lil john pontoon rental. everything was relatively cool.....until the surge quit, the water dropped, and every piling punched through the hulls.
Posted on 9/19/20 at 1:50 pm to piratedude
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hung on a barnacle covered piling as long as he could
I have a major "Whoa, Nellie" moment at the thought of anyone hanging onto a barnacle encrusted anything for more than ten seconds. Maybe some barnacles are less sharp than others, but Atlantic barnacles cut through tennis shoes in one slice.
Also six hours in the water? Even in warm water wouldn't one of the -thermias kick in?
Posted on 9/19/20 at 4:22 pm to real turf fan
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Also six hours in the water? Even in warm water wouldn't one of the -thermias kick in?
i wondered about that myself. maybe it seemed like 6 hours? time flies when you're having fun. maybe he was on the bridge most of that time.
whatever the timing, he was in serious trouble and survived.
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