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anybody hear of this? where did this happen?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5027487.html
GALVESTON -- Bolivar firefighters today cut through the bottom of an overturned boat to rescue an injured man trapped in an air pocket, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The man was flown by Coast Guard helicopter to the University of Texas Medical Branch here with serious head and body injuries, a Coast Guard spokesman said.
Two other men were thrown from the boat when it struck a line extending from a dredging barge. They were taken by boat to the Galveston Coast Guard station where an ambulance was waiting to transport them to UTMB.
The pair did not appear to be injured, authorities said. Their 20-foot pleasure craft struck a dredge pipe in use by the dredge boat Edward Fisher, whose captain notified the Coast Guard at 11:17 a.m.
The boat collided with the dredge line just outside the buoys that mark the Ship Channel where the Intercoastal Waterway enters the Bolivar Peninsula.
The injured man and his companions were not identified by the Coast Guard.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5027487.html
GALVESTON -- Bolivar firefighters today cut through the bottom of an overturned boat to rescue an injured man trapped in an air pocket, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The man was flown by Coast Guard helicopter to the University of Texas Medical Branch here with serious head and body injuries, a Coast Guard spokesman said.
Two other men were thrown from the boat when it struck a line extending from a dredging barge. They were taken by boat to the Galveston Coast Guard station where an ambulance was waiting to transport them to UTMB.
The pair did not appear to be injured, authorities said. Their 20-foot pleasure craft struck a dredge pipe in use by the dredge boat Edward Fisher, whose captain notified the Coast Guard at 11:17 a.m.
The boat collided with the dredge line just outside the buoys that mark the Ship Channel where the Intercoastal Waterway enters the Bolivar Peninsula.
The injured man and his companions were not identified by the Coast Guard.