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Hurricane Ida: Shrimper Norman Bouisse survives 13 hours on capsized boat. Grant Bundy came to get him.
As a shrimper, he’s called Lafitte home for seven decades. “To me, it’s the best place,” he said. He thought he’d seen it all. “This is the worst. This is the worst,” he said while looking at what Ida left behind. Bouisse planned to ride out the storm with a friend in Lafitte. He thought he had time to check on his boat in Bayou Barataria, but Ida was too quick and too strong. “I was on my boat and my boat broke loose and rolled over,” he said. “I spent almost 13 hours laying on the boat and the next morning my friend came and rescued me.” His friend’s name is Grant Bundy. Video, >click to read< 08:14
Tough day at the Chatham Break: a capsized boat, and the windows blown out of another
David Wiener and his son Hans were returning to Pleasant Bay Thursday through the infamous Chatham break, a maze of water crashing over shoaling sandbars, when they found themselves riding the face of a 10-foot breaking wave. The steepness proved too much for their 23-foot center console boat. “The nose (of the boat) went down and (the boat) pulled right,” Hans Wiener said as he sat wrapped in a towel near the fishermen’s monument after the two men were rescued by Harbormaster Stu Smith and Assistant Harbormaster Thomas Deeg. Their boat wasn’t the only vessel to feel the power of the Chatham break Thursday. At 6:30 a.m., Tim Linnell was heading out at sunrise for a day of fishing for dogfish and skates. His vessel, Perry’s Pride, is substantially larger than the Wieners’ boat and built to take the pounding the ocean can dish out a hundred miles or more offshore. Following in a line of vessels headed out through the break, Linnell’s wheelhouse windows were blown out by the last in a set of four waves when his vessel didn’t recover in time from the previous swell. Video Read the story here 16:15
Officials work to remove capsized boat near Ventura Harbor
A boat remained partially submerged at the mouth of the Ventura Harbor on Monday after hitting the south end of the jetty while returning from a fishing expedition late Sunday night. Most of the 50-foot-long fishing vessel sank in shallow waters after hitting rocks along the jetty. Three people were rescued from the boat and one of them may have required medical care because of hypothermia, Brian Pendleton, business operations officer for the Ventura Port District, said on Monday as he stood on a balcony outside his office and looked across the harbor to the shipwrecked vessel. Read the rest here, 4 photo’s 19:56
