Canoe crew grateful for life jackets, dry bag for cell phone by DREW MIKKELSEN / KING 5 News Bio | Email | Follow: @Drewmikk Posted on July 22, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Updated Monday, Jul 22 at 5:21 PM Gallery a.. a.. a.. a.. SEE ALL 8 PHOTOS ยป http://www.king5.com/news/local/Nine-people-rescued-after-canoe-overturns-near-Port-Townsend-216498231.html SEQUIM, Wash. - For most participants, the annual Canoe Journey is about tradition, retracing the routes of their Northwest tribal ancestors around the Olympic Peninsula. But for the team from the Tsartlip Tribe in Canada, it was about survival Monday. "It was crazy," said skipper Nobert Sylvester. His nine-person crew found themselves treading water in the Strait of Juan de Fuca early Monday after their canoe tipped over in what Sylvester described as rough seas. His cell phone was in a dry bag so he was able to call 911, but the dense fog made finding the crew difficult. It was two hours before a Coast Guard boat pulled the eight men and one woman out of the water. One of the crew members, a 20-year-old man, had to be taken to the hospital for hypothermia. The rest were checked out by paramedics in Sequim. The crew said they will resume the journey Tuesday. "Most of us grew up on the water, most of us grew up with paddles in our hands," said Sylvester. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Native News North List info{all lists}: http://nativenewsonline.org/natnews.htm Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NatNews-north/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NatNews-north/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
