Officers rescued a father and son after their boat sank in the in Boston Harbor. The two men were clinging to a floating cooler to stay afloat.
In the nick of time, the Boston Police Department's harbor patrol unit rescued a father and son who were desperately clinging to a cooler at the outermost edge of Boston Harbor after their lobster boat sank. A father and son were rescued Wednesday as they desperately clung to a floating cooler after their lobster boat sank into Boston Harbor.
At about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a report of a boat sinking about 100 yards off the coast of a lighthouse,When police arrived, officers only saw a small part of the boat's bow above water. Then they saw a blue cooler bobbing in the water and two men clinging to it. "You could see the fear in their face," said Stephen Merrick, one of the officers who responded to the scene."They were cold."The man asked officers to first rescue his father, who was wearing a life vest.Officers rescued the older man, flinging his leg over the side of the vessel and rolling him onto the boat. The man said he was 76 years old.
Police said the boat's engine got tangled in lobster lines and began to take in water and eventually sink.
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