It's amazing how clean Boston Harbor is these days
By adamg - Thu, 07/03/2008 - 5:00pm.
It so clean the Coast Guard has to stop people from swimming across the harbor's shipping lanes. The Coast Guard reports:
A local citizen notified Coat Guard Sector Boston that the man had jumped into the water from [Rowes Wharf] at about 9:15 a.m., and was swimming north, across the ferry channel, toward the John Joseph Moakley Courthouse.
Two Coast Guard vessels responded and pulled the unidentified man out of the water. Click the photo below for some video of swimboy:
Coast Guard lacks navigational skills
If they think it's possible to swim north from Rowes Wharf to Fan Pier ...
Southeast?
Yeah that doesn't sound right at all... Southeast, I would think.
the skinny on this dip
is it me, or does the guy look like he's naked?
testing
ok. thx
Nitpicking aside
from all the armchair dead-reckoners, this is pretty awesome news. When I moved here, the harbor was like the third most polluted on the planet (after Hong Kong and someplace in Turkey). The fact that people are able to swim in it and that it poses traffic problems is actually kind of neat.
I remember having the cognitive dissonance time of my life the first time I saw harbor porposes making their way from Charlestown towards us in Puopolo Park (Quick, check the coordinates!) a few years back.
A less happy harbor incident
Coast Guard currently searching for person in water:
the owner of the boat
is affiliated with the entwistle case, according to the herald.