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September 6, 2013
The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
Page 17
OCBeach Crowd Watches Crews Fight Boat Fire
By SHAWN J. SOPER
NEWS EDITOR
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OCEAN CITY – Potential tragedy was averted last Saturday when a Good Samaritan arrived and took two people off a burning 46-foot sport fishing vessel that ultimately sank just a quarter-mile offshore in front of a big beach crowd. Around 3 p.m. last Saturday, Ocean City Communications received a call for a boat on fire in the ocean roughly in the area of 8th Street about a quarter mile off the crowded beach. Heavy black smoke poured from the burning vessel, identified as the “Sea Witch,” based out of the West Ocean City commercial harbor, as it drifted slightly north along the crowded beach. Another Ocean City-based charter boat, the “Salty Sons,” was in the area and responded quickly to remove the burning vessel’s two occupants, who were uninjured. The Ocean City Fire Department responded quickly, implementing for the first time in an official active fire capacity its new fire boat, as did the Coast Guard, Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) and the private sector Tow Boat US. Tow Boat US Captain Greg Hall said this week he heard the mayday over the radio and responded with his company’s small boat. Hall said he was uncertain from the distress signal the magnitude of the incident and believed at first it was a smaller vessel somewhere in the vicinity of the Inlet, but soon found out it was something much larger. “We heard the mayday and jumped in our mini-boat and followed Ocean City’s fire boat out of the Inlet,” he said. “We weren’t sure what we were looking for at first, but when we rounded the rocks at the Inlet jetty and started to head north, we saw thick black smoke pouring from the burning sport fishing boat.” Hall said when he arrived on the scene right behind the Ocean City fire boat, the engine room of the “Sea Witch” was completely engulfed in flames. He said the Ocean City Fire Boat immediately began soaking the burning vessel, shooting water through the vents to the engine room and the holes that had already burned in the vessel’s fiberglass hull. Hall said he and the fire boat worked quickly to prevent the burning vessel from coming ashore on the crowded beach. Once the fire was extinguished, an attempt was made to tow the vessel, but it was taking on water through the holes in the hull and got washed over by large waves and rough seas on a couple of occasions, which essentially sealed its fate. In addition, severe damage to the boat’s systems contributed to its SEE PAGE 18
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