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PWC News

Feb 14 2011

PWC Used in Life-Saving Rescue

It had been more than three hours since a wave flipped Norm Manley’s towboat and tossed him into St. Augustine Inlet on Florida’s northeast coast. Manley was trying to rescue a trio of sailors who had run aground, but he turned out to be the one who needed saving.

Manley, a 60-year-old towboat operator for the TowBoatU.S. franchise in St. Augustine, spent three and a half hours battling eight-foot seas and hypothermia before he was rescued in dramatic fashion. “I started violently vomiting,” he says. “I really never gave up hope, but I had pretty much made my peace that I was going to run out of time.”

Read the whole story at SoundingsOnline.com


 

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