The U.S. Coast Guard was called in this weekend to rescue a man who apparently drove his ATV onto Lake Erie ice, which then broke away from the shore.

The Coast Guard reports that a SOS call came in around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, revealing that a man was stranded on the lake near Sterling State Park in Southeast Michigan.

When Coast Guard units, from both Toledo and Detroit, located the man shortly after, he was drifting on a small ice floe, completely surrounded by water. They report that he had a full exposure suit, a cell phone, and a GPS but little else.

The man was pulled to safety via helicopter, and efforts to rescue the man’s ATV are still underway.

Here’s some video footage of the rescue via DVIDS.

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This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2014.

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4 replies on “VIDEO: U.S. Coast Guard Rescues Man Who Drove his ATV onto Lake Erie”

  1. I’m not trying to sound Republican here, but are my tax dollars really being used to try to “rescue” this D-Bag’s ATV?

  2. No they rescued just him.. He had to pay an outside company to go get the ATV the next day. It was my dad..

  3. Think about it – if the Coast Guard had rescued the ATV, they would have charged him for it, probably twice what the salvage company did too. The ATV could not be left to fall into the lake with its, gas, oil (and do they have antifreeze?) to pollute the lake.

  4. Well, at least this idiot was smart enough to have a full exposure suit on. He’s still lucky though.

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