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Water Rescue Craft
1801 Chuckanut
Ridge Drive
Bow, WA 98232 USA
(208) 322-3600

Designer and
manufacturer of
inflatable rescue
boats.

Snowmobile through ice on Lake Gogebic

I just want to thank you for shipping the RDC before we were able to pay for it completely.  If it wasn’t for your cooperation I don’t think we would have had the equipment in place for the emergency call we had tonight.

We got a call from the state police that they were responding to a snowmobile through the ice on Lake Gogebic.  The call was in the ajoining county, but we responded at their request with our SAR Team and RDC.  Our closest access point took us out on the lake about 800 ft then across 20-30 ft of open water to the victim.  The RDC worked like a dream.  When we had the victim secured and were pulling the craft back in, it slid so easy we thought the rope broke.  We had two rescuers and a victim that was near 400 lbs on it.

Thanks again for your cooperation and we hope to order the motor bracket and the underguard in the near future.

SCOTT VOIT
GOGEBIC COUNTY SEARCH & RESCUE

Fisherman rescued from the Chattahoochee River
Incident Report, Cobb County Fire & Emergency Services
(PDF format)

Ice rescue drill turns into more than practice
The Malcolm Daily, February 19, 2004
(PDF format)

Advanced Rescue Technology Water Rescue Competition
Advanced Rescue Technology - Feb/Mar 2004
(PDF format)

"I'm impressed with the range of rescue applications the RDC can perform well."
FireRescue Magazine - May 2003
(PDF format - 1.8MB)

Rescuers feared they'd find a body, but Christopher Watt survived his ordeal in an Ottawa sanitary sewer.
The Ottawa Citizen - June 2002
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