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Capsized duck hunters rescued from bay
Three foundering duck hunters were plucked from the chilly waters of Apalachicola Bay Saturday morning, following a a quick response by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s water rescue unit.
Sheriff A.J. Smith said that sometime after 6 a.m. , dispatched received a call, placed from one of the men’s cellphones, that their boat had partially sunk, and that they were able to cling to it to stay out of the water.
Water temperature in the bay was about 62 degree on Saturday morning. The temperature was about 45 degrees and the was was 7 mph comeing out of the northeast.
“These people were definitely in severe peril from drowning from hypothermia,” Smith said.
Major Dwayne Coulter and Capt. Brad Segree quickly rushed to the sheriff’s office boat, and resuced the three men, who Smith said were also short on life jackets.
“They did an outstanding job,” said Smith. “They made amazing time getting the boat in the water. Hypothermia was already setting in on one of them.”
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.