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I just heard that on the news.  So sad, but glad he was finally found.

This was 5 years ago yesterday. Still seems like a dream.

RIP- Keech, Roger and Greg.

I see Jay once or twice a year when I take my boat to him for a fix. Thankful that he was spared.

Thought about Keech and Roger today while out on the bay. I always wear my life jacket when out in cold water (anything less than 70dF for me). But it would be hard to survive for very long in water temps  in the mid 50's. How Jay survived the night is a miracle. But he's also a Marine.

08:53 - Water Rescue

MD-Talbot-Tilghman area off Feather Lane

Tilghman (70), Oxford (20), St. Michaels (40) , Medics, Cambridge RFC (1) , Neck District (31) , MSP Aviation Trooper 6 , Taylors Island (66)
Reported an unoccupied vessel, with a possible person in the water.

Updated location may be further south in Dorchester County. Possibly in the area of Taylors Island.
Trooper 6 and Tilghman Boat are in the area of the boat in the Slaughter Creek, Taylors Island.

09:25-The vessel is being towed but location of occupant is unknown.  Units have been advised this is related to a boater/vessel that has been missing for 14 hrs at this point out of Chesapeake Beach, Calvert County MD.  Friends that had been searching had tracked a phone to this area and found the boat still running.  The boater was not on the vessel.

Incident has been turned over to NRP and the Coast Guard.

There’s a lot of folks out looking for him. I pray for their safety.

This brings back sad memories from 9 years ago.

I used to fish cold water all the time but it has diminished over the years. Frankly, the death of Keech, Roger and Greg still haunts me.

Another one!

A 65-year-old waterman is missing on the water out of Deal Island, and police are asking anyone with information to please come forward.

Gregg Allan Thomas, 65, is a commercial waterman from Princess Anne. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police (NRP) tells us that Thomas didn’t return home the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 1, after working in the area of Deal Island. Shortly after he was reported overdue, his boat was found running with no one on board, the engine still in gear.

NRP, the Coast Guard, and several emergency rescue agencies launched a search. NRP says officers have been conducting surface and sonar search operations, but bad weather hampered those efforts Tuesday afternoon. They were set to resume the search at first light on Wednesday. NRP and the Coast Guard are jointly investigating the incident.



Ernie's public service announcement- Going out alone when the water is cold is a recipe for disaster!

Rest easy LJ...

NEWS | The Maryland Natural Resources Police has ended the search for Lonnie James Johnson, 65, of Chesapeake Beach after NRP personnel located Johnson deceased on Thursday afternoon in the waters of Dorchester County near Taylors Island.

Officers responded to the northwest shoreline of Taylors Island, south of the mouth of the Little Choptank River at approximately 12:30 p.m. on December 4 when NRP aviators spotted the body while conducting aerial searches aboard the department’s helicopter, Natural 1.

Johnson’s 23-foot center console vessel was found unmanned on November 14 in the area of Taylors Island in Dorchester County after he left Chesapeake Beach to go fishing on the afternoon of November 13.

Search efforts lasted 21 days and were aided by Maryland State Police, United States Coast Guard, Civil Air Patrol, Anne Arundel County Fire Department, Charles County Dive Rescue, Calvert County Rescue Dive Team, Baltimore County Police Department, Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department, Saint Leonard Volunteer Fire Department, and countless other allied agencies, volunteers, and good samaritans.

That is a terrible tragedy. Condolences to the family

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