Another C & R - SF Bay waters

Another Kayaker, but this time in SF Bay.  My wife saw the story in the AM on TV.  Aparently he was on a kayak, but not sure if he was an angler or not.

http://www.ktvu.com/news/10173283/detail.html



Man Rescued From Frigid San Francisco Bay Waters

POSTED: 6:44 am PDT October 27, 2006
UPDATED: 8:23 am PDT October 27, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- A man was pulled from frigid waters of the San Francisco Bay early Friday after treading water for more than hour until he was rescued by firefighters and a U.S. Coast Guard crew.

San Francisco Fire Department spokeswoman Lt. Mindy Talmadge said a group staying at a youth hostel called 911 at 1:34 a.m. when they heard screaming in the water near Muni Pier at the foot of Van Ness Avenue.

"Our rescue squad was the first on scene," she said. "They saw somebody out in the water splashing around and screaming."

Firefighter divers swam out to the man and helped him onto a Coast Guard boat.

The Coast Guard responded around 1:50 a.m. A Coast Guard dispatcher said the man had "been in the water for about an hour."

Firefighter crews don't know what he was doing in the water. "He was out there by himself," Talmadge said.

A fire department ambulance got him to the hospital by 2:18 a.m.

The man was suffering from hypothermia, but he is expected to live, Talmadge said, adding, "it was very successful effort."
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You sure he was kayaker? No mention of a kayak. If 0130 was the rescue and he was in the water an hour then he went paddling late at night perhaps even around Midnight? The plot thickens.

Sounds pretty fishy till you realize it went down in San Francisco.  The only weird stuff happening in the city is what everyone ele considers normal.

My wife saw this in the Marin IJ.  The story said he lived on an "anchor out" in Sausalito and used the kayak for trasportation to S.F.!!     Maybe he doesn't know about the ferry.   

I just hope he isn't a fisherman.