Hi Guys & Gals. Spring fishing is right around the corner, lets all make it a safe spring , summer & Fall run, lets not take any chances.
Read this story then click on this link, it sadened me , I am sure it will you as well, lets thank god it was a ok ending. Guppie .
Last Sunday, I went, by myself, to the jetty at Barnegat Lighthouse State
Park in New Jersey to photograph the
Harlequins and other sea birds. Unfortunately, I
slipped and ended up inside the jetty, upside down and trapped
between two fifteen foot, granite boulders. My feet
were straight above me and I could not move. I tried for fifteen
minutes and finally had to give up. It took me another
ten minutes to reach the cell phone in my back left hip pocket.
When I opened it, it said “No Service!” I won’t
tell you what I said. Still, I hit 9-1-1, speaker and raised my left arm
as high as I could (my right arm was pinned beneath
me!) Thank God, the 9-1-1 service came on and good old Ronnie
was able to get the Coast Guard and Long Beach Island
Fire Department to come after me. It took them over an hour
to find me and I cannot describe how terrifying the
wait was. Here was this foolish old man trapped inside a jetty,
no one around, upside down and the tide coming in!
In any event, all’s well that ends well and when I
heard Vince’s voice and saw his yellow-helmeted face smiling at me…
oh well, you know how I felt. It took six of them to
carefully lift me out of my predicament and get me to the
ambulance headed to Southern Ocean County Hospital. Now
I am back home with a bunch of stitches in my head,
a bump on the side of it the size of an orange; two
black eyes; a broken wrist; a sore shoulder and a greatly
damaged dignity. I will be ever grateful to 9-1-1,
Nextel-Sprint, all the Emergency volunteers who came to help me,
and, of course, Dr. John Sullivan and the folks at
Southern Ocean County Hospital who took such good care of me.
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