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FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL SAVED, |
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| DEALE, Md. - A four-year-old girl
was rescued after becoming separated from her family while swimming with
her grandfather, who was later found deceased, near their 40-foot
sailboat in Herring Bay, Md., in the evening on June 28, 2005. The girl's grandmother called the Coast Guard about 7:10 p.m. after she received a cell phone call from another child on the boat who reported the two missing. Crewmembers from Coast Guard Station Annapolis, two Maryland State Trooper helicopters, Maryland Natural Resource Police and Anne Arundel Fire Rescue teams immediately began searching. The grandmother could not give an exact position, and Coast Guard search-and-rescue controllers coached one of the four children on board to turn on the boat's GPS and pass their location. A state trooper onshore was the first to see the swimmers in the water. The trooper reported that the man was face down in the water and that the child was moving around. The crew of a Coast Guard 25-foot rescue boat arrived at the scene at 7:45 and had both swimmers in the boat by 8 p.m. The crew took them to shore and performed CPR on the man until local EMS arrived. The man was taken by ambulance to Calvert Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The girl was released to her parents. The Coast Guard strongly recommends that all boaters wear life jackets. The child was wearing a life vest, however her grandfather was not. |