Multiple agencies respond to scene
This week, with help from SeaTow, a Sarasota Police Department officer was able to climb aboard an unmanned boat that was circling at a speed of about 40 mph in Sarasota Bay, north of The Ringling Museum, and stop it, the Police Department has reported.
On April 28, members of the Sarasota Police Department’s Marine Unit responded to a call about a boater in distress, a news release said, with initial reports indicating that the boater had fallen overboard.
Officers of the Marine Unit, with assistance from the United States Coast Guard, the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office, the Venice Police Department and SeaTow, “worked together to safely bring the situation under control,” the release said. “After several attempts to foul the vessel’s motor with tow lines were unsuccessful,” the release points out, personnel with SeaTow were “able to deploy a plasma tow line, slightly slowing the vessel.”…