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PAGE EIGHTWhensizesBv RICK NIELSENfloating face down in the sonASheriff’sDepartment1 Neither vv a s wearinglifthelicopter pilot twice braved jackets, accordingtocitytreacherous 10-foot breakers - firemen.Sunday to aid in the rescue♦TheSheriff’s Department'?of one man and the recovery * chief pilot Tom Collins said hoof the body of another who heardthesirensofthedrownedaftertheirsmall « emergency equipment rushingsailboat capsized near the en-|to the marina so he and MasontrancetoVentura Marina, irolled out the helicopter. Theyauthorities reported.received a call before they wereDeputyMikeMason first airborne.leaped into the surf from the They immediately flew to tinhelicoptertoassist rookie location where liremen handedVentura fireman Fred Sinead in,them a nvlon line they hadsaving the one man. Then he obtainedfromaSouthernagain jumped from the chopper; California Edison Companyto help state lifeguard Carl'truck, which happened to be atMaier in recovering the body. ;the location. With firemen onThe survivor, John R. North, mneendoftheline.the43,of1411CalleColina. helicopter took it out to NorthThousand Oaks, was taken to and lowered a life preserve toGeneral Hospital, Ventura, and him.admitted to the intensive care' Firemensaidthevthenunit suffering from shock and started to drag North to shoreextreme exhaustion. He was but he was too exhausted tore polled in fair condition today, hold on. Smead, 25. who joinedNorth, vice president of Pertec the department less than sixEquipment Division, owned the months ago, stripped to his19«iOot boat.; trousers, and began wading outHiscompanion,William (into the water.Harris Hastings, 47. of CanogaPark, facility manager of theFloating Face Dounequipment company, was“The waves kept knockin':pronounced dead at the sceneNorth down and suddenly hiafter Mason and Maier, 28.began floating face down.'lifeguard supervisor, draggedCollinssaid.“Masonthenhis bodv to the shoreline.jumped from the copter into theDeputy Coroner Merle Peterswater.said Hastings apparently diedMasonandSmeadthenfromdrowning. Hesaid an mana^ed to drag North toautopsy is pending.safety.Ventura police said North andThe helicopter then picked upHastings were sailing back toMaier and heandMasonthe marina shortlybefore 3 lumPecl mt0 the water andp.m. when a wave snanped the Pu^ec* Hastings body from themast, then capsized the boat.hurling both into the roughFiremen said the dramaticwind-swept sea some 500 vards rescue attracted a crowd offrom shore, just south of the s°rae 200 spectators.south jetty of the manna.Hastings is survived by hisHastings Swept Awavi wife, Patricia, and a son. Hisbody was taken to Joseph INorth managed to grab the Readron’s Funeral Chapel.
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Oxnard Ventura County Ad Visor
Oxnard, California, US
Thu, Jan 24, 1974
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