A group of 18 people were stranded on Lake Erie with all-terrain vehicles after an ice crack left them without a way back to land.
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Officials said an MH-65 Dolphin helicopter from Air Station Detroit noticed a group of people on the floe near Catawba Island at about 1 p.m. Sunday with several all-terrain vehicles seeking a route back to land.
The helicopter lowered a rescue swimmer and began hoisting operations while an airboat got underway from the nearby Marblehead station, the Coast Guard said.
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Were these people tourists? If so, it wouldn’t surprise me that they got stuck.
Stranded for how many days or hour 🙄
That rescue cost like 35,000 dollsrs.
A sign of Spring is coming as the ice sheet on the lake gets thin, breaks up and strands people. Normally, in mid winter season, people could ice skate on it.
👏👏☺️ they are safe now
Thankfully, they weren’t attacked by Polar bears. Phew.