Natural Resources Police and Wildlife and Heritage Service staff helped rescue six waterfowl hunters stranded on a disabled vessel on the Nanticoke River on the evening of Jan. 31.
First responders were dispatched around 6:30 p.m. that Saturday evening, however local fire rescue crews were unable to reach the stranded boaters due to unnavigable waters caused by substantial ice thickness and frozen boat ramps. Recorded weather data shows that temperatures were in the high teens to low 20s, while strong northerly winds gusted over 20 miles per hour at times.
Natural 1 – NRP’s helicopter manned by Sgt. John Buchanan and Ofc. Christian Helwig – had just completed an escort of another vessel in the ice-covered waters of the Tangier Sound when called to assist with the incident in the Nanticoke River…