| Ninth District External Affairs U.S. Coast Guard |
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| News Release |
Date: Sept. 2, 2008
Contact: Petty Officer Bill Colclough |
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Coast Guard transports female tubing rafter BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Coast Guard Station Buffalo medically evacuated an 18-year-old female who fell off a tubing raft pulled by a 24-foot Bayliner in the outer harbor near the Buffalo River at approximately 5:30 p.m., Tuesday. "She couldn't feel her legs, they were tingling quite a bit. She was conscious," said Boatswain's mate 3rd Class Erron Luetke. Luetke and his 33-foot Special Purpose Craft-Law Enforcement crew pulled alongside and tied up to the Bayliner to recover Nicole Decker, who was wearing a life jacket. "I and another crewmember got into the water and put her on board," said Luetke. The SPC-LE crew transferred the Buffalo native to awaiting Emergency Medical Services on shore at the Erie Basin Marina. Station Buffalo was conducting two-boat training in the outer harbor when a lookout crewmember observed a pleasure craft dead-in-the-water with a person on board flagging them down for help. The Coast Guard recommends all boaters and water sport enthusiasts to wear a life jacket at all times and have a marine band radio on board set to channel 16. For further inquiries, contact the Ninth District Public Affairs Office at 216-902-6020 or the duty cell at 216-310-2608. For official Coast Guard video b-roll of the 33-foot SPC-LE, click on the link below: http://cgvi.uscg.mil/media/main.php/v/video/33b-roll_001.wmv.html ###
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