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Man who died when boat flipped in San Juans is identified
The Seattle Times (blog)
A 72-year-old man who died after the boat he was in capsized in the San Juan Islands Friday afternoon has been identified as James Ableman of Bellingham. The accident happened a few hundred yards west of Sucia Island, which is north of Orcas Island ...

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How to Survive a Rushing River
Wall Street Journal
Then the river spun the boat in a half-circle and flipped it over. I careened downstream, upside down and backward, until I could roll the kayak upright and resume paddling. When I'm on a whitewater run, I often feel like a pinball: shooting downstream ...

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Stuff.co.nz
Call for boaties to take more care after boat flips
Stuff.co.nz
Footage of the boat being spun around by rough seas before it flipped over, throwing the man overboard. NEW BRIGHTON BOATIE: "This guy is an absolute clown . . . no life jackets, no surf sense, no brain," says eye witness Dougal Holmes.

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How to Survive a Rushing River
Wall Street Journal
Then the river spun the boat in a half-circle and flipped it over. I careened downstream, upside down and backward, until I could roll the kayak upright and resume paddling. When I'm on a whitewater run, I often feel like a pinball: shooting downstream ...

Marlborough Express
No life-jacket boatie an 'absolute clown'
Marlborough Express
Footage of the boat being spun around by rough seas before it flipped over, throwing the man overboard. NEW BRIGHTON BOATIE: "This guy is an absolute clown . . . no life jackets, no surf sense, no brain," says eye witness Dougal Holmes.
Lifesaver astonished at boatie's 'stupidity'NZ City

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Texoma man receives "Lifesaving Award" for saving stranded boaters
KXII-TV
A fishing trip went from fun to dangerous when their boat started to sink. In a matter of two minute, the boat flooded then flipped over on top of Terry. "He didn't ever think he'd ever see me no more and someway, somehow I pulled myself out," Terry ...

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Boater 'sacrificed himself' to save his son, wife says
Windsor Star
About an hour later, a wind kicked up from out of nowhere and flipped their sailboat. With his father's help, Justin Gulko managed to get back on board. Gregory, 49, slipped beneath the waves. "He sacrificed himself. I know he did," Kathy Gulko, ...
Man missing in Lake Erie after sailboat capsizesLeamington Post

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Deputies rescue five people after boat capsizes on reservoir
The Register-Guard
By AP BEND — Deschutes County sheriff's deputies rescued a baby and four other people after their boat capsized at Wickiup Reservoir. The fiberglass boat's outboard motor quit working Sunday afternoon, and the boat flipped while those aboard were ...
Deputies rescue 5 people at Wickiup ReservoirThe Columbian
5 boaters rescued from WickiupBend Bulletin

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Hydroplane racing community mourns loss of Leland
Kent Reporter
He won the consolation heat but was flipped out of the boat during the final heat. (Boats raced without safety canopies then). Leland was not seriously injured, but that was the end of his driving career. As a designer, Leland experimented with a ...

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1 dead, 2 rescued after boat overturns near Sucia Is.
The Seattle Times (blog)
People aboard the boat were reaching to retrieve a stuck crab pot from the water, when the vessel flipped shortly before 3 pm, said Eric Cookson, command duty officer for the US Coast Guard in Seattle. Another boater pulled the three victims, all male, ...

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