![]() Once you fly south for the winter, it’s hard to go back to wintering up north. What’s that weatherman? Snowmageddon? Snowpocalypse? Snow-my-goodness? Snow-what! Bring it. Just a few years ago we lived in Pennsylvania, and we were quite accustomed to the annual wintery onslaught. Of course, we weren’t always so thin-skinned. How he stays warm and comfortable is an important lesson for anyone interested in extreme winter camping.Īs snowbirds who drive south the moment we smell cold, the mere idea of driving onto a frozen lake to ice fish sends chills through us big enough to set off distant seismographs. Anything below that you have a chance of breaking the ice and falling through.In the deep cold of Minnesota winter, Ken Barry takes his Four Wheel Camper to frozen lakes and goes ice fishing. "Strong ice for a snowmobile would be about six inches. "That can be really dangerous out there cause then you’re stranded with no way back to land," BM3 Tyler Lakatis with the Coast Guard said on Jan. Even then, those crews were already seeing areas with some cracking and shifting ice and a spokesperson brought up the issues for those using snowmobiles and ATVs on the ice. Coast Guard based out of Marblehead about thin ice. Less than two weeks ago, News 5 spoke with the U.S. The National Weather Service recently issued a Marine Weather Statement, in effect through Monday afternoon, stating that gusty winds will continue to pose a risk for ice floes to break off on Lake Erie, with people strongly urged to stay off the ice. Coast Guard's rescue motto is no ice is safe ice." "Even though they had about six inches out there today, it still broke off," he said. Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Morse served as the coxswain of the Coast Guard's airboat during the rescue. No one required medical attention, according to the Coast Guard. Once on scene, the helicopter hoisted seven people from the floe, the Coast Guard airboat rescued four people and the good Samaritan from Wisconsin with an airboat rescued the remaining seven people. The Coast Guard told everyone, including Bodek, that all ATVs had to be left on the ice. ![]() Those 18 people were on ATVs looking for a route back to land. My understanding, I don't think any gear was lost. Wish we got some more fish, but I'm glad it ended well. "It was definitely an adventure and a memory I had with my uncle and my father. In his 20 years of ice fishing, Bodek said he has had situations where he had to jump 1 or 2 feet across a crack in the ice, but never anything like what happened Sunday.īy the time they were rescued, the crack was about 100 yards wide. Like I said, the ice was probably 10 miles long and very wide, and with ice fishing there all day, we knew the depth,” he said. I'll say because we weren't too worried about sinking at any point. Everyone was pretty cool, calm and collected. “We were on that massive ice that everyone's seeing. ![]() He believed they broke off on another smaller piece of ice. The next thing he realized, the helicopter was rescuing a group of people who were walking. So the crack went from land to land and we were pretty much stuck,” he said. Next thing you know, three more snowmobiles came and two more quads, and they said they just came all the way from 10 miles the other way. “We were probably only 100 yards from actual land, so we were so close, then had to head south and we were going to ride the crack all the way until hopefully, we could find somewhere where it didn't break off. when they noticed a Coast Guard helicopter circling above an airboat, which he later learned was operated by a man from Wisconsin who had been ice fishing since last Tuesday and was heading home Sunday.Īfter packing up their equipment, Bodek said as he was heading towards land, he noticed the cracks in the ice. Throughout the morning, they moved a couple of times until about 12:30 p.m. ![]() That was one thing that was always awesome when you go out on the lake," he told ABC News in an interview.īodek and his relatives drilled some holes in the lake and looked for fish. I will say when we left, the sunrise was beautiful. Using their four-wheelers, Bodek drove out about 3 miles on the lake. It all started as a normal ice fishing day for Bradley Bodek, who left with his father and uncle at 3:45 a.m. It was believed around 20 people were on the ice at the time of the rescue, with the total number of people later confirmed to be 18. ![]()
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