A man found clinging to a piling in the frigid waters of Cowichan Bay was pulled to safety by a search and rescue crew over the weekend.
An overturned aluminum vessel is seen in Cowichan Bay. Search and rescue crews later pulled its hypothermic occupant out of the water. Saturday, Nov. 23.
A crew left the station to scour the water north of the marinas but had “little information to go on,” the base said in a Facebook post. The team then headed toward the docks belonging to Pacific Industrial & Marine Ltd., southeast of the Cowichan Estuary, and found the man “hypothermic, and still in the water clinging to a piling.”
“Getting there quickly was important. He’s lucky he had his cell phone, he managed to make a 911 call,” said Winfield. “He was barely able to talk. We had to pull him into our boat, but he couldn’t really get up without needing serious assistance.”
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