MCKINLEY TOWNSHIP, MICHIGAN (AP) – Three anglers are safe after a homemade ice-fishing shanty was blown about 1.6 kilometres across a bay in Michigan by winds that neared 80 kph, authorities said.
A person onshore called Huron County dispatchers about 8am on Sunday after seeing someone struggling with the shanty as it was being blown across the ice on Saginaw Bay off McKinley Township, Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson said in a news release.
The shanty, which had been occupied by three men, was about 2.4 kilometres offshore when deputies arrived. Hanson said a fire department airboat was taken to the site for a rescue, but the three men eventually were able to make it across the ice to shore on their own.
