DETROIT -- More than 20 people were fishing on Lake St. Clair on Saturday morning when the surface began to crack and break into ice floes, preventing some anglers from returning to shore.
The U.S. Coast Guard airlifted three fishermen off the treacherous ice floes on the Canadian side of the lake and returned them to the Mitchell’s Bay shoreline in a 90-minute rescue mission on Saturday. It was the Detroit Air Station’s first ice rescue of the season, public affairs officer Lt. Matthew Zavalij told MLive.
“It was a continuous sheet of ice but there were big cracks in it,” he said. “It’s easy to be engaged in what you’re doing and not realize that a crack has formed because there’s not open water. But when you try to return, you realize you’re unable to cross safely.”
With the closest Canadian air station being in Toronto, about 180 miles away, Detroit Air Station is the fastest to respond to Lake St. Clair, Zavalij said. The Canadian coast guard called for assistance around 11:20 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27. Detroit Air Station always has a helicopter manned and ready to go on rescue missions.
The four-man crew of Lt. Cmdr. Taylor Andrews, Lt. Drew Caudill, flight mechanic Levi Holley and rescue swimmer Derrian Duryea quickly took off for the mission. They first located a man who was stranded alone, Zavalij said. Duryea was lowered to the ice to assess the situation before the man was hoisted up to the helicopter and taken to shore. The crew then returned to search for more stranded anglers; they found two men on an ice floe and repeated the rescue protocol, he said.
Everyone else who was on the ice when it began to break apart safely returned to shore on foot, Zavalij said. No injuries were reported.
The Coast Guard warns anglers and others traversing icy lakes to exercise caution, bring a communication device, dress for the weather, stay in groups, and inform someone on shore of where you’re going and when you’ll return. Warm clothing, life vests and survival suits can be crucial.
“We’re going ot do our best to find and rescue you, but we have to know there’s distress and you have to keep yourself alive until we show up,” Zavalij said.
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