[Rhodes22-list] A very strange sailing accident. Very sad.

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LAKE JOCASSEE — A 3-year-old boy is still missing  in Lake Jocassee in 
northern Oconee County after a sailboating incident. 
The Oconee County Rescue Squads and Dive Team joined the South Carolina  
Department of Natural Resources officers at Lake Jocassee shortly after 2 p.m.  
today after a 10-foot fiberglass sailboat with a father and son overturned and  
the 3-year-old boy went missing. 
According to a DNR spokesman, the father and son were both wearing  
lifejackets while boating near the state park's main boat ramp in northern  Oconee 
County. The spokesman said it is believed a fast-moving storm or high  winds 
caused the boat to turn over, tossing the father and son into the  lake. 
Randy Burdette with Oconee County Emergency Services said emergency services  
received the call about 1:50 this afternoon. He said authorities don't know 
how  the sailboat sank, but believe the son's jacket caught in the rigging of 
the  boat, presumably taking him under. The father was rescued. 
Rescue workers have not yet found the boat. They said the water is 100 feet  
deep with a slope that goes down to 400 feet. 
A crew from the Sheriff's Office in Charleston is on the way with sonar  
equipment, but rescue workers have called off the search because of approaching  
storms. The search is to restart at 8 a.m. Mr. Burdette says this is likely now 
 a recovery effort.



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