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A father and son were rescued Wednesday as they desperately clung to a floating cooler after their lobster boat sank into Boston Harbor.
At about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, police responded to a report of a boat sinking about 100 yards off the coast of a lighthouse, the Boston Police Department said in a statement.
When police arrived, officers only saw a small part of the boat’s bow above water. Then they saw a blue cooler bobbing in the water and two men clinging to it.
“You could see the fear in their face,” said Stephen Merrick, one of the officers who responded to the scene. “They were cold.”
“We’re so weak,” the younger of the two men said, according to body camera footage.
The man asked officers to first rescue his father, who was wearing a life vest.
“Help him up please,” he said. “Help him up first.”
Officers rescued the older man, flinging his leg over the side of the vessel and rolling him onto the boat. The man said he was 76 years old.
Next was his son.
“Please,” he told officers. “I can’t hold on.”
After police pulled the second man from the water, both were taken to shore, where Boston Emergency Medical Services workers were waiting to treat them for minor injuries.
Police said the boat’s engine got tangled in lobster lines and began to take in water and eventually sink.
Contact News Now Reporter Christine Fernando at cfernando@usatoday.com or follow her on Twitter at @christinetfern.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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