Person in water reported near Duluth canal prompts rescue, Duluth MN
Missing PersonA person was reported in the water near the Duluth canal. The Coast Guard and Marine 19 were sent to search. A life ring was deployed to track the drift. The reporting witness guided the rescue teams by phone, giving their location as behind the outbound ship near the canal exit toward Park Point.
Audio|Source: North St. Louis County Sheriff, Fire and Roads
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Transcript:
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Once you keep going on your run, when you get out of the channel, I want you to go straight out. The gentleman that reported it said it's not where the buoy's at, it's behind the buoy,
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kind of more towards,
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he was watching the ship that was outbound, and he said it was behind the outbound ship. And that, of course, is downrange now about a mile or so, but it would have been off the canal more towards the, basically, the Park Point side.
00:30
Copy that, we'll get straight out from the canal.
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Fire sled 2-2-9 with the U.S. Coast Guard, 2-1.
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Duluth Fire, U.S. Coast Guard, go ahead.
00:48
Oh, sir, you might have had that, heard that we were just talking about it. I've got Marine 19 going out, and I've just sent him in basically the direction that you're going in.
00:57
The gentleman that is on, that the reporting party, is on the phone with me, so you can just, we'll just leave him on my phone, and he will guide you as to where he saw, like left or right from where you're going.
01:12
The loose wire coach yard, that's copy, over.
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Yeah, I couldn't tell.
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To the fire, 251, you want the Coast Guard, you can just go left right there. Just head to your left a little bit here, about three, four degrees.
01:28
Yeah, you're doing good.
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He said it'd be in that location about where the canal comes out,
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like that line where the canal comes out, but yeah, to your left where you're going there.
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The list fire Coast Guard, good copy.
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We'll keep our eyes on to the left here.
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Command to Marine 19.
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75. 25.
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251 to Marine 19.
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Very nice. You can go ahead.
02:16
Can you take a look at the stoplight up by the bridge? What color is it? Is it going out or in the water?
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Solid yellow.
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Can you say again?
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Blue six out these are about half a mile out of you. They just won that curve.
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Right, let them.
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I open this for a clock.
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Okay.
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One, two, uh,
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three-nineteen. Take a look over your shoulder. See what the stoplight says on top of the bridge there in the top right.
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Solid yellow.
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Solid yellow.
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104 yellow.
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251 Coast Yard.
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We'll continue looking around in this area.
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Please continue to pass any additional information over.
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251, 2.5.1. 2.5.2.2. Coast, Coast.
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Yeah, 725-5.
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Toot Looth on behind the car.
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Got the eyes on, 1756.
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He said that when he was looking out there with his binoculars, he first saw, he thought it was a buoy, and then he saw arms waving.
03:59
It was in the wake of that boat that was going out.
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And pulling over right past the 265.
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That's the 235, Sony, 56.
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251, Duluth Fire, this is U.S. Coast Guard. We are deploying a life ring to help calculate drift.
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Currently, drift appears to be about one nautical, one knot
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inbound to the channel.
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Over.
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10-4[2], thank you.
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6-70-2-Lith, Code 4[1].
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Copy code 4, it's 75-thum.
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251 to Marine 19 and U.S. Coast Guard in Common 1. Just be advised, the person that's reporting is in the Sheraton, which is the 300 block of East Superior,
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and he's saying that where he saw the person or what he saw was in between both of your boats right now.
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So if Marine 19, you come right a little bit,
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and then U.S. Coast Guard, like you say, you're calculating drift, so you might be in the area.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
Code 4: Situation under control; no further assistance needed
[2]
10-4: Acknowledgement (OK / Message received)
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Location mentioned:
Near S Lake Ave # 105, Duluth, MN 55802
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