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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
From CBC
A 17-year-old boy has been rescued from an ice floe near the Nunavut community of Coral Harbour, where he is being treated for hypothermia. Two search and rescue technicians parachuted to where the youth was stranded, after searchers aboard a Hercules aircraft had spotted the youth around 9:15 a.m. ET Monday, roughly eight kilometres off the coast of Coral Harbour. The teen has been brought back to Coral Harbour for treatment, officials say. Two Hercules aircraft had resumed searching Monday morning for the boy, who became separated from his uncle as they were returning home from a weekend hunting trip. Community members told CBC News that the pair split up after one of their snowmobiles broke down. They had been gone from Coral Harbour for about three nights, but it's unclear exactly when the teen became missing. The uncle returned to Coral Harbour and was flown to Churchill, Man., to be treated for hypothermia. First contact Searchers first achieved contact with the teen at about 9 p.m. ET Sunday and monitored him in the dark using flares dropped from the Hercules aircraft before they lost track of him. Nunavut's emergency measures organization has also chartered a helicopter from Hall Beach to assist with the search. Coral Harbour is a hamlet of about 800 located on the southern coast of Southampton Island at the mouth of Hudson Bay. It was cloudy Monday morning, and the temperature was –20 C, which felt like –26 with the windchill. Environment Canada predicted sunny skies later in the day with a high of –12 C. Searchers had about seven hours of daylight to work with, as the sun rose at 8:42 a.m. and sets at 3:51 p.m.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Oh great, now certain member here (s left off to be sly) will be concerned he will float off on ice.
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Nosher Loyal user 261 Posts |
Lucky boy. Not the kind of environment to be lost in...
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
"A teenage hunter trapped on an ice floe in Hudson Bay was forced to shoot a polar bear in self-defence as he waited to be rescued from the drifting sea ice.
A spokesman with the Nunavut government says three bears were on the same ice pan as the 17-year-old after he became separated from his uncle. Ed Zebedee says one of the bears, likely a female, got too close and the youth was forced to shoot the animal." More here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nati......1356685/ (Good thing this wasn't a case of "I was building an Igloo then the ice floe broke away and I think my son was hiding in the Igloo!".)
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Wow, Balducci.
BTW, here he was as seen by the rescuers.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Lucky he wasn't wearing white...locals might have clubbed him to death....like they did all those Titanic survivors.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2009-11-09 19:17, balducci wrote: :lol: I think the Falcons have already migrated south for the year. Might be a few in Colorado.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Update: Now the rescuers are stuck in the ice.
"The Coral Harbour men have been in a boat in the mouth of Hudson Bay, about five kilometres offshore, since Monday night. They are about 40 kilometres from the community of Coral Harbour.... "The four men manoeuvred their boat through the ice Monday and safely transported the boy and two military rescuers to shore. But sometime later, the boat got stuck while they were trying to return to the community. "Young [of the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre] said the men are currently in good condition and are not in any immediate danger as they are wearing warm clothes and carrying the appropriate safety supplies." Man. These guys are tough.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
stoneunhinged Inner circle 3067 Posts |
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On 2009-11-10 14:40, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Indeed. |
RJE Inner circle 1848 Posts |
Tuff Canucks!
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MagicSanta Inner circle Northern Nevada 5841 Posts |
Why not drop a magnet to the kid, put another one on a polar bear, then send the beat to get him?
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