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Nine rescued after boat capsizes in the Charles
By adamg on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 8:43am
The Cambridge Fire Department reports firefighters fished nine people out of the Charles just before the Mass. Ave. Bridge after their boat capsized shortly after 7 a.m.
The department reports no serious injuries and that the boat has been righted.
WBZ has a photo and reports the boat was apparently a crew rowing boat.
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Two Fours, not one 8
Looks like it was two fours, not an eight: that would make it 8 rowers and two coxswains.
Looks like an 8.
https://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Authorities-...
Looks like at least one 8 in this NECN video.
I'd love to know
Curious why none of their team-mates or the coaches boat that normally seems to be out with them didn't rescue them before the FD could get there.
I know the coaches boats are small and there were 9 rowers, but I guess I still assumed that part of being a rowing team is being prepared (even practicing on occasion) for self-rescue.
Can any rowers explain how this all plays out?
Here's hoping that the 9 rescued people in the capsized boat
were either up-to-date on their tetanus shots, or got tetanus shots after they were rescued.