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From: Norm of Bandersnatch (no email)
Date: Tue Nov 14 2006 - 20:49:36 EST
Once upon a time, in the Great Lakes, an old friend Capt Ron (no, not the
one of the movie), was carrying groceries from his car to his boat docked
at a marina.
His 8 year-old son was with him. Occupied with the task at hand he
presumed his son was visiting with neighbors in the marina while he was
provisioning his vessel.
When he was finished carrying the goods aboard he looked around for his
son. Although he noticed his dog Mate, a yellow lab, was woofing at the
water, he checked all the nearby boats but his son was not aboard any of
them.
Suddenly he stared at Mate, who continued to woof at the water. He was
extremely fortunate to find his son on the first dive. The alarm was
raised and he went off to the hospital in the ambulance with his young son.
The boy had been in the water ten to fifteen minutes, he guesses.
The first hospital wanted to write the boy off, even though they had
restored his breathing in the ambulance. But Ron was not impressed, he
flew his son to a more advanced facility and after two days of coma his boy
recovered and lives to this day with no apparent effects from his
experience.
He was also in the medical books as one of the first and youngest
documented cases of Cold Water Drowning syndrome.
Ron died two years ago, but I think I know what he would say on the subject
of pets on board.
I vividly recall a similar scene on TV years ago. Three people had fallen
though some ice on a northern river and the fire dept had rescued two of
them but could not find the third. There was a dog on the ice who
persistently woofed at the water in a certain spot. One of the firemen
dove into the frigid water where the dog was woofing and came up with the
third person.
Norm
S/V Bandersnatch
Lying 30 07.715N 081 38.394W
Julington Creek Estuary FL
> When the PetStep (ramp) broke and I plunged to the bottom of our creek,
they
> raised the alarm by barking furiously to people nearby. Often one will
> sleep with me while the other lays at the threshold to the stateroom.
> Sometimes George will remind me that it's time to stop watching TV and
get
> in bed.
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