About an hour in the waters of lake Michigan, a resident of Illinois held over the head your cell phone to help rescuers locate his friend.
Two guys, 29 and 31 was about a mile East of Waukegan Harbor in Lake County, Illinois, when their 15-metre boat suddenly began to rapidly gain water. She sank within 10 minutes.
One of the sinking men was able to call the coast guard on his mobile phone. According to employees of the coast guard, water temperature in lake Michigan was 14 degrees Celsius.
«One of the guys was not even a life vest, he couldn’t walk on water. The second was in a life jacket, he spent more than 45 minutes he held his cell phone high above his head so that he wouldn’t get wet, and they had a relationship,» — said the rescuers.
Although both guys got hypothermia, they were immediately taken to the hospital, and their lives are not in danger. As it turned out, they were not informed on the shore of his lake, as required by the rules.
«We urge all boat owners advise us your itinerary to have in the boat signaling device and a sufficient number of life jackets,» added the coast guard rescue.
