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August 16 - Two Harbors
We heard about one of the most gruesome boating accidents while at Catalina Island last weekend. A late middle-aged woman, with lots of boating experience, returned to her 29-ft Tollycraft in the wee hours of the morning, and somehow managed to slip or fall in such a way that one of the pins of the hinge-like inflatable-dinghy lifting bracket on the transom platform went through her eye and hooked the inside of her skull. Half in the water and half out, and in obvious horrible pain, the woman couldn't detach her skull from the pin. As her boat was closest to the dinghy dock at Two Harbors, several others quickly swam over to try to help, but couldn't figure out how to unhook her skull from the pin either. Depending on the report, the poor woman's skull was hooked for anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes before the paramedics could get her loose. She was taken over to the USC center a short distance away, where a helicopter picked her up to rush her to a mainland hospital. The woman survived, but lost the eye.
Don't Read this while Eating
August 16 - Two Harbors
We heard about one of the most gruesome boating accidents while at Catalina Island last weekend. A late middle-aged woman, with lots of boating experience, returned to her 29-ft Tollycraft in the wee hours of the morning, and somehow managed to slip or fall in such a way that one of the pins of the hinge-like inflatable-dinghy lifting bracket on the transom platform went through her eye and hooked the inside of her skull. Half in the water and half out, and in obvious horrible pain, the woman couldn't detach her skull from the pin. As her boat was closest to the dinghy dock at Two Harbors, several others quickly swam over to try to help, but couldn't figure out how to unhook her skull from the pin either. Depending on the report, the poor woman's skull was hooked for anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes before the paramedics could get her loose. She was taken over to the USC center a short distance away, where a helicopter picked her up to rush her to a mainland hospital. The woman survived, but lost the eye.