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Article: Men Cling to Cooler in Lake
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- August 9, 2001
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08-09-2001
Men Cling to Cooler in Lake
OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) -- Four men spent 17 hours in Lake Ontario clinging to an empty beer cooler after 5-foot waves capsized and sank their fishing boat.
The men were rescued Wednesday morning after a man living near the lakeshore heard their faint cries for help and took out his boat.
``Thank goodness they didn't give up hollering,'' said the rescuer, Joe Stewart.
``It was nothing short of a miracle,'' survivor Todd Wafer said from his bed at Oswego Hospital.
Besides Wafer, 23, those rescued were Dan Trumble, 45; Rich Batchelor, 31; Tom Ketcham, 28, of Mexico.
The men, all employees of Solvay Paperboard, headed out on the lake in Trumble's ...