4 men rescued from Chesapeake Bay
No serious injuries suffered after boat sank off Anne Arundel County coast

By a Baltimore Sun reporter
7:58 AM EDT, August 6, 2007

Rescuers from federal, state and local agencies pulled four men to
safety early today from the Chesapeake Bay after their boat sank in
choppy waters in southern Anne Arundel County, officials said.

Three of the men were in the water for about three hours and another was
rescued about an hour after a 25-foot Bayliner sank off Herrington
Harbor in Deale. All four were treated at a hospital, but none suffered
serious injuries, officials said.

The first call came in to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Police about 10:30 p.m., and crews from that agency and the U.S. Coast
Guard stationed in Annapolis responded. Fire boats from a volunteer
station in Anne Arundel County also headed out.

Petty Officer Joshua Rihm with the U.S. Coast Guard said this morning
that crews had difficulty finding the boat. "It went down pretty quick,"
he said, when its propellers got caught in fishing lines that "pulled
the boat down." He said it was raining and waves were one to two feet.

After about 90 minutes, Rihm said a Coast Guard vessel fired off a flare
to light up the area. "We then heard a voice," Rihm said. "We heard one
guy who stayed next to the boat yelling." He said Anne Arundel County
firefighters rescued that man.

More than an hour later, other crews rescued the three other men who
were in the water, and wearing life jackets.

The name of the boat and identities of the victims were not immediately
available this morning.


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