Maine's top elected Republican says he's glad to be alive after a giant wave overturned his lobster boat ahead of the remnants of Hurricane Lee
FILE - Maine's House Minority Leader Billy Bob Faulkingham, R-Winter Harbor, right, attends the State of the Budget address, Feb. 14, 2023, at the Statehouse in Augusta, Maine. Maine's top elected Republican official got a big scare during the remnants of Hurricane Lee when a giant wave overturned his lobster fishing boat at sea. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and U.S. Coast Guard warned mariners at noon on Friday, Sept.
Their ordeal unfolded Friday afternoon as the water in the Gulf of Maine was already starting to churn. But it still wasn't rough enough to prevent lobstermen from finishing their work. “It was surreal to see a wall of water coming at you like that. It’s just not natural to see water coming at you laterally. It was above us. I don’t know how high it was in total. But it was above us,” he said.
Several planes flew over and several other lobster boats passed in the distance, but no one saw them. In the meantime, the Coast Guard, responding to the beacon, alerted Faulkingham's wife at 12:20 p.m. and the search was on. Their rescuer was a familiar fisherman. A cousin, Mikie Faulkingham, was the first to find them at 1:11 p.m. He hauled them onto his lobster boat and rush to shore, where an ambulance took them to the hospital.Their ordeal had begun just as the Coast Guard was telling mariners to rush final preparations for Lee, still a Category 1 hurricane more than 400 miles to the south.
“We put out these advisories to make sure people are safe and trying their best. We said multiple times the ocean is unforgiving. We can’t really stop people from going out — it’s ultimately at their own risk,” Caballero said.
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