A Canadian construction worker has survived a fall from the Ambassador Bridge into the Detroit River, thanks in part to swift action from rescuers who pulled him from the waters within minutes of the incident.
SHUTTERSTOCK — On July 12 a worker fell off of the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor, Ont. and Detroit, Mich. into the water below. He survived and was rescued by the J.W. Westcott mail boat.
Berry said he was monitoring rescue efforts on Canadian Coast Guard VHF radio. He heard two fishers on the Detroit side witnessed the fall and saw the man hit the water, surface apparently unconscious, submerge again and return conscious. The fishers knocked on the door of the shoreline headquarters of a U.S. mail ship that is often sailing the waters, the J.W. Westcott, and the worker, said to be heavy and young, was with some effort pulled into the Westcott and brought to shore.
An American construction worker years ago was wearing heavy construction equipment and hit the water and was conscious, Berry said, but there were no boats in the vicinity and he finally went under and drowned.“Typically, what happens is, depending on how you land, if the body lands flat, well, the body is shattered, bones break, the spine snapped. If you go in feet first you break your legs.
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