2 Boaters Rescued from So-Called 'Circle of Death' After Being Ejected from Fishing Vessel

Photo: Marshfield Police Department

Two Massachusetts boaters are safe after being thrown from their 24-foot boat and facing a “circle of death” without life jackets, local police said.

On Tuesday, Captain Dana Blackman, the Captain of the Fishing Vessel Finest Kind, alerted the Marshfield Harbormaster that the Center Console boat was “circling at a high rate of speed” at a buoy in Farnham Rock, Marshfield Police said in arelease.

Captain Blackman also told the harbormaster that they had “just pulled two males from the water after seeing the vessel in a circling pattern” after “one of the boaters was seen “waving a white T-shirt” from inside the water.”

Police said the boaters were thrown from the vessel and did not have on lifejackets. They were also not harnessed to a “vessel kill switch.” The boat continued to swerve in a “tight circle pattern,” a.k.a. the “Circle of Death.”

The boaters were not injured in the incident, per the release.

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They noted that the scary incident should serve as a “stark reminder” of how quickly things can happen “on the water without notice.”

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Police went on to “urge the use of life jackets and tethering of the vessel safety kill switch,” adding that “These incidents can happen to the most experienced mariners.”

source: people.com