Boat Sinking

[tarhull87]

Anyone know anything about the boat that sank while under tow from Little Creek to Hampton on Monday?

Heard the news from a pilot friend of mine.

[N4ZNH]

This may be what your thinking of.


2 rescued from sinking boat off Hampton

04:11 PM EDT on Monday, May 11, 2009

By 13News

OFF HAMPTON -- The two people were rescued from their sinking boat Monday afternoon.

PA2 Nathan Henise told WVEC.com that a Good Samaritan picked them up and their 50-foot vessel was being towed by a commercial salvage company.

The Hampton Fire Department say its boat also responded to the scene at Thimble Shoals, but its assistance wasn't needed.

It's the fourth situation in three days that the Coast Guard's be called out to help.

The search continues for a 58-year-old man who fell overboard near the first island of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.

Authorities say he was in a 25-foot pleasure craft and wasn't wearing a life jacket.

He went overboard around 10:00 p.m. Sunday.

[home cookin']

not the same boat, but there's a capsized boat, about 20' w/ outboard, in the mouth of the Elizabeth River, anchored with an orange bouy. It was over near Sandy Point (NIT) around Easter and then blew across so it's near and north of ODU sailing/lamberts point golf/coal piers. Very strange. Salvage, anyone?