Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Florida Joy Ride
Training in Florida is always an adventure. A week in Cocoa Beach rowing twice a day. People getting blisters from the sun and salt and from rowing for the first time in three months. We were wet docking, for some the first time. Wet docking is walking the boat out into the water as opposed to setting the boat in the water off of a dock. You get wet, therefore, called wet docking. So we head out one morning into the canal. Under the bridge we see a car starting to sink as it's floating across the canal. Out coach, Suzette, calls 911 in case there is someone inside the car. We continue to practice past the car and Suzette stays for the police to arrive. It turns out when the police got there they needed her boat to get the scuba divers to the car. So Suzette stays with the police while we continue to practice. We finally come back at the end of our workout to see a crane lifting the car out of canal. Later that night we learned that no one was in the car. Rather someone had taken the car for a joy ride, and to dispose of the vehicle they just drove it into the canal hoping it would sink. So, we must have found the car only shortly after the driver decided to "hide" it in the canal.
As told by Marylin Elliot
As told by Marylin Elliot
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