Unintentional heroes win Canadian rescue award



10:35 PM Tue 1 Feb 2011 GMT
'2010 Rescue of the Year award for Chris Busch, Nick Crooks, Lindie Rudover, Carol Crooks, Alan Johnson and Alex Baker - photo by Scott Webster' .
Whenever you step onto a yacht to go sailing, there's a possibility that you will face a life threatening situation, if not yours, then someone else's. How will you fare? The recipients of the Canadian Safe Boating Council's 2010 Rescue of the Year were tested and not found wanting. The six crew members of the yacht Private Idaho, who were honoured in Toronto last month at a ritzy function at the Sheraton Centre, admitted that they had previously done 'man overboard' practice in daylight, and had done a debriefing of 'safety stuff' just before they left, which stood them in ...


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by Jeff Bolichowski, Windsor Star/Sail-World





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