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SUSSEX COUNTY, DE –
“An onboard emergency prompted a response from the Coast Guard, and the rescue of five boaters near a Delaware bay on Christmas Day.
Officials say the five mariners experienced possible carbon monoxide poisoning while boating 11 miles east of the Indian River Bay near Bethany Beach, Delaware.”
Coast Guard medevacs boaters off Delaware coast for possible carbon monoxide poisoning (fox29.com)
“• The U.S. Coast Guard and a local Delaware fire department are reporting that they were called out on Christmas afternoon for five seafarers suffering from possible carbon monoxide exposure.
• The USCG’s Delaware Bay Command Center received a report that 5 mariners aboard the motor vessel Reggeborg had experienced possible CO poisoning, requiring medical assistance, a Station Indian River 47-foot motor lifeboat boat & the Lewes Fire Department also responded with one of its boats, Delaware State Troopers, Delaware Fish & Wildlife & the DNR also assisted.
• 2 of the crewmembers were removed from the ship by the U.S. CG & transferred to its station for further medical assistance, the 3 others were transferred to the Bethany Fire Department for medical assistance.
• The 557ft long Netherlands registered 22,000 dwt ship, Reggeborg was anchored 11 miles east of Indian River Bay off the Delaware coast since December 19 & arrived from Jacksonville, Florida from Finland in October.
• It is unclear how the crewmembers of a general cargo ship anchored offshore were exposed to the deadly gas.”
