Good Samaritans Save Six Lives
 

https://whdh.com/news/good-samaritan...at-in-chatham/

Want to acknowledge a great story with two of NJF's finest. The "Good Samaritans" mentioned in the attached article included Justin and Chris, JDTuna and Chrisper. The charter they were part of are responsible for saving six lives today, including two of man's best friends. Being in the right place at the right time is one thing, being able to recognize a boat in distress and respond instantly before tragedy strikes is epic! Incredible story of making all the right moves responding to a boat minutes away from capsizing and in the process not only very likely but most probably saving six lives.

I'll let Justin and Chris provide the details but these guys, the captain and the rest of the charter deserve a big dose of recognition for their quick thinking and involvement preventing a disaster at sea.

And for those of you who don't believe in Karma, Chris was later rewarded for his involvement in the heroics by landing his first baby dolphin...the mammal! Lol, Chris I think maybe a higher authority is suggesting you stick with sweet water species although there's four very grateful people tonight thanking their lucky stars you guys chartered that trip.

Congratulations gentlemen, great job and proud of you both!

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Nice work guys.... Looks like Justin has yet another species to add to his quest.

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Well written, and thank you for sharing this,

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Great job guys.

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Awesome job guys! Scary stuff at the same time. Way to be on your toes and get the crew to safety. Good karma all around. Love this! :D

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Way to go guys!!!!!

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Gary D from NJF was also with us assisting. All the credit has to go to the captain, Dom from Coastal Charters; he knew just what to do and we just followed his lead.

and Tom, I got my karma payback in RI monday and tuesday with some fantastic tog fishing both days and the bad weather avoiding us almost completely despite the forecast!

And hopefully this also reminds people to make sure they have all their safety equipment and it WORKS. These guys had a radio that didn't work and a flare gun that didn't work. we barely saw them waving a hand flare. They also only had 3 life vests for 4 guys and i highly doubt the dog crate floated. They boat capsized maybe 3 minutes at most after we pulled them off... It happens eerily fast!

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Once again, great job from all involved

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Chris great job again by all involved. Literally everyone would have been in dire straits if not for your charter's efforts. I believe Justin said no EPIRB either. Too many people think "It won't happen to me", it can! A couple grand in safety equipment maintained properly in 58 degree water could have been the difference between a close call and a call to relatives. If it was dark or you weren't close by, this would have gone real bad real quick as you said. Thank God for those involved this had a good ending and again congratulation to all involved who were onboard Coastal Charters. Gary my apologies in my initial post for leaving you out, didn't realize other NJFer's we're on board.

Chris glad to hear Karma repaid you with two great days on the Tog grounds.

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yeah, once they would've capsized in 2-3 minutes it would've been nearly impossible to see them bobbing there in that chop.