When we beached the boat(I was not driving but I was the passenger on boat when the boat was beached) the boat was in about 8 inches of water. That night we had 6 guys out there(sherrif and some volenteer people) trying to move the boat and we could not get it to budge so we figured that we would round up everyone we could get ahold of and come back out the next day to rescue the boat. Well... that night the water dropped 6 inches, so the boat was only in 2 inches of water and there was no moving it with a group of 10-15 guys. The people who opperate the damn claimed that the water level would rise in the next few days but the water level only continued to go down.
The boat was sitting stranded for about a week and a half, the retreieval of the boat today was freaking amazing. I shot the video that you see from the youtube link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uqNCyS8qto The guy who flew the chopper did some of the chopper stunts from one of the Mission Impossible movies, he was amazing. He pretty much dropped the boat right next to the dock. When it was all said and done the pilot asked Ryan(the boat owner) why he just did not have him put the boat on the trailor.
This first picture was taken the night the boat was beached:
These pictures were taken today:
(Message edited by mhsb1029 on March 24, 2007)