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The Coast Guard came to the rescue of five people who were clinging to a cooler in Lake Erie after their boat was swamped by a wave far off the Ohio coast, authorities said. The 22-foot boat was ...
The Coast Guard’s Air Station Detroit and Marblehead Station responded with local authorities for rescue operations, the U.S. Coast Guard's 9th District based in Cleveland wrote on X Monday. It ...
According to the US Coast Gaurd, a kayaker is missing and is believed to be capsized in Lake Erie near Sheffield Lake. Rescue efforts for missing Lake Erie kayaker become recovery mission [Video ...
Skydivers conducted memorial jumps in 1968 and 1969, both times first throwing a wreath out of a plane and then intentionally jumping into Lake Erie. [54] A Springfield News-Sun article about the 1969 jump notes that the skydivers wore light clothing and flotation devices. [ 55 ]
Lake Serpent: 1829 The schooner disappeared en route to Cleveland with a load of limestone. Both occupants fell overboard and drowned; their bodies washed ashore just west of Cleveland. The ship was discovered in 2016 and identified in 2019. She is the oldest-confirmed shipwreck in Lake Erie. Little Wissahickon United States: 10 July 1896
Halli Reid is the first woman to swim across Lake Erie, which she completed around August 9, 1993 at the age of 24, swimming from Long Point, Ontario, to Freeport Beach in North East, Pennsylvania, in 17 hours. Around 200 people greeted her as she first came ashore at Freeport Beach.
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SS G. P. Griffith was a passenger steamer that burned and sank on Lake Erie on 17 June 1850, resulting in the loss of between 241 and 289 lives. [1]: 54 The destruction of the G. P. Griffith was the greatest loss of life on the Great Lakes up to that point, and remains the third-greatest today, after the Eastland in 1915 and the Lady Elgin in 1860.