West Vancouver鈥檚 Whytcliff Park where Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue volunteers saved a stranded park visitor Friday morning. Photo Google Maps
A Whytecliff Park visitor found himself between a rock and a wet place Friday morning.
Volunteers from the Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Unit 1 in West 麻豆传媒映画were called to save a Coquitlam man from Whyte Islet, a rocky socket on the south tip of the park.
The man went out to the islet just after 7 a.m. but, during his visit, wasn鈥檛 paying attention to the rising tide submerging the natural causeway. When he realized he was stuck, he climbed a tree and tried to get someone鈥檚 attention.
鈥淗e was there for about three hours waving his arms and trying to signal before someone saw him and called the police,鈥� said Hugh Kelsey, spokesman for RCMSAR 1.
The park visitor was properly dressed for the bad weather and took the ordeal in stride, Kelsey said.
鈥淗e was very relaxed about the whole thing. We鈥檝e pulled many people off of the islet over the years and most of them were a little uncertain as to what their future would hold and were really excited for us to come and get them. He was ambivalent, I would say,鈥� Kelsey said.
The crew brought the man back to their Horseshoe Bay rescue base by 11:30 a.m. Police spoke with the man and sent him on his way.
