[UPDATE 8:55 a.m.] Surfer in Distress Rescued
Just before 8:30 this morning, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office announced, “Rescue efforts underway for a surfer in distress at the North Jetty. HCSO & Fish and Wildlife boats deployed for rescue.”
By 8:36 a.m., they said, “Surfer is safe, being assisted to nearby rocks for care.”
UPDATE 8:55 a.m.: The surfer’s board has been found and returned to the Coast Guard station, reports one of the rescue personnel over the scanner.
UPDATE: Off Duty Coastie Saves Surfer
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Well done.
?Agreed, people working together. ????Thank you sheriff’s, that’s from the surfer. ?
Hell yes! No sissy leash, but ya still gotta keep up with your board.
Isn’t it great that the Coast Guard helped the surfer out. Work done without pay for how many days?
So, do they send him a bill?! Because some kook didn’t want to wear a leash we (taxpayers) have to foot the bill?! Be smart out there guys
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Maybe the leash snapped.
Nobody should be surprised. The waters around here are treacherous.
Leashes break…..
Memories are forever
What additional costs were incurred to help him? The Coast Guard gets paid whether they go out or not.
Well, usually they do but not this month
Helicopter fuel, OT and/or hazard pay for civilian employees, damaged or disposable equipment, medical treatment, vehicle maintenance, ECT… The things they do are expensive!
That’s a ticklish way of thinking about it. All of us are likely to do something that risks our costing society. From driving a car to hiking. Where is the “too costly a risk” line drawn.
It can go from recreational activity to straight up survival of the fittest out at big N.Jetty. Have respect for the ocean and always wear a leash out here. Big rips,big waves, and big sharks.All things that can require a leash to save your life. Yes, and the Coasties do rock up here. Give them props whenever you see them. No pun intended.
Leashes break.
Everyone will get there pay..these people do this because they care…
Everybody will get their pay WHEN, Mandrake? When you gesture hypnotically? How easy for you to say! Meanwhile, the “people” who “care”, our U.S. Coast Guard personnel, risk their lives saving others while worrying about their family’s food and shelter. Are you feeling Great Again?
Can somebody please explain to Agent Orange that the U.S. general coastline is 12,383 miles (U.S. Census) and the total shoreline, including bays and convolutions, is 95, 471 miles (NOAA). The USCG is tasked with lifesaving and GUARDING our coast against smuggling, terrorists and yes, illegal immigration. The TSA has to keep killers off our planes, the Air Traffic Controllers keep planes from colliding, the FBI guards against domestic criminals.
Our border with Mexico is a bit less than two thousand miles. Why the dichotomy? Why keep moaning and whining about security on the southern border to the extent that our security elsewhere has to be held hostage to Traitor Tot’s precious wall? The entire nation is held hostage to the madman Donald John Trump, to his hate, his ignorance, his racism.
Let us hope that it will not take a national catastrophe or economic meltdown, as in Venezuela, to finally dislodge this vile, narcissistic parasite from our body politic.
The unofficial motto at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Port Orford, OR as I have modified it to fit current circumstances: You have to go out, but you don’t have to come back. You don’t have to get paid, either.
Sudden disruption can do in a citizenry but so can a long slow bleed. Would you consider it worth the hopefully short lived pain if it forces Congress to address the mess that comes from it’s refusal to do the hard work has made of immigration rules? That is of course the only sensible reason this goes on. You may have your opinion about who the offenders are but everyone should be able to see how we got here.
I’d love it if both sides would address the horrific immigration rules. I’m not willing for that expensive, environmentally problematic, wall to be built. And, that is what the shutdown is over to build or not build further on that wall. Unfortunately, real immigration policy reform doesn’t seem to be on the table.
Repeat:
It is not about the Wall.
The people hurt by the shutdown have absolutely nothing to do with the wall; they don’t make policy, there is no way of knowing where any of them stand politically, they cover a range of beliefs, ages, geographic home districts, pay grades, viewpoints and skills. They are just convenient hostages. Trump/McConnell and their GOP enablers have simply grabbed almost a million innocent bystanders and are holding them at gunpoint. Realizing this exposes the GOPs callous indifference to human life, their paucity of reason, and their utter failure to do the jobs they were elected or hired to do.
Trump’s wall is a scam and the shutdown is a scam within a scam. If he can keep the shutdown going long enough, the people not getting paid will have to find other jobs that pay. Whenever the shutdown is over Congress will not replace people in the jobs that were quit, saying, “Well, we got along without people in those jobs just fine, so we don’t need them”, reducing the corporate governmental employees tale by however many of those 800,000 had to give it up to survive.
There are fortunately a lot of people who will be willing to bear a great deal of adversity from the shutdown so long as “the right people” are being hurt.
Shut down is pelosi fault. Simple as that. Trump won his voters want a border fence wall whatever you want to call it. He will get it one way or another. Pelosi is a joke. Trump will take blame for shutdown but we all know it’s pelosi and Schumer.
Dude, are you still looking for your car?
Maybe he should have got it funded when Republicans controlled the House and Senate.
Just putting this here in case you missed it. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2018/dec/11/donald-trump-government-shut-down-chuck-schumer-white-house-video
Humboldt county coroner…to the rescue!
Well hellbilly, I don’t know what you’ve been doing the last 20 some years, but i believe these resourses have been coming out of my tax dollars since the Clinton years???