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via WOIO

The Coast Guard Station Marblehead was busy over the weekend helping 11 people who were disoriented on the ice off Catawba Island thanks to Saturday’s snowstorm.

Initially, four ice fishermen called 911 to report that they had become disoriented and couldn’t find their way back to shore.

Dispatchers used the caller’s cell phone signal to obtain a GPS location, where the Coast Guard airboat crew met the fishermen and began escorting them to land. The fishermen had too much gear to load onto the airboat, so they walked alongside the airboat as it headed to shore. As they were on the way in, the boat crew encountered three more people who were also disoriented, and escorted them back as well.

While the boat crew was escorting those seven people, they were notified of four additional people, two on a four-wheeler and two on a three-wheeler, who were also disoriented off Catawba Island.

The boat crew made sure all seven people they were currently escorting made it safely to shore and then turned around to assist the four additional people.

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Article courtesy woio.com