MORRO BAY HARBOR LOGS
FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 2009
During the month of July, 2009, in addition to their normal course of duties the Morro Bay Harbor Patrol responded to 132 calls for service, including 11 true emergencies. Patrol personnel engaged in 31 enforcement actions and 50 maintenance actions. Highlights include:
Wednesday, July 1
·Assisted Coast Guard and Sheriff personnel with identification and number of potential victims in a kayaking/diving accident off of south Cambria.
·Assisted the commercial passenger fishing vessel Rita G with an injured passenger aboard.
Friday, July 3
·Relieved the tow of one recreational vessel towing in another three miles south of the harbor entrance. The disabled vessel was towed back to the harbor, the cause of the breakdown unknown.
Saturday, July 4
·After the 4th of July festivities were over, assisted State Parks Rangers with locating a missing 17 year-old male lost on the sandspit. The youth was in cell phone contact with the Rangers, and a MB Lifeguard was sent to the sandspit to locate him. He was located and transported back to shore and his waiting parents.
·Assisted MBPD locate a missing 17 year-old female, this time missing from the 4th of July event at Tidelands Park. She was located a short time later at her parents’ hotel room by MBPD Officers.
Monday, July 6
·Emergency response to two boaters who had capsized their small motor vessel in the surf about 1/2 mile south of the south jetty. They had jumped off the boat and were OK, however the boat didn’t have the same luck. After three days of recovery effort by the Harbor Patrol and the owners, the vessel was removed from the beach but destroyed in the process.
·Conducted boating safety and lifeguard boat training exercises with the Cayucos Junior Lifeguard program participants.
Tuesday, July 7
·Early-morning call-out for the unoccupied motor vessel Pizazz stuck high and dry on the revetment rocks near Target Rock. The vessel had drifted free from the anchorage area overnight, and Harbor Patrol and Coast Guard personnel were able to get her off at the high tide later in the day without incident or major damage.
Wednesday, July 8
·Assisted the Coast Guard Aids to Navigation team replace channel marker numbers 5 and 7 with new markers, and to relocate marker number 4A.
Thursday, July 9
·Conducted boating safety and lifeguard boat training exercises with the Morro Bay Junior Lifeguard program participants.
·Emergency response to a report of a boy possibly in trouble surfing near the Rock. It turned out to be a false alarm.
Saturday, July 11
·Emergency response to another vessel in the surf, this one north of the Rock. The three occupants aboard were able to hop out and safely walk to the beach before help arrived. The Harbor Patrol winched the boat up the beach and got it loaded onto the owner’s trailer. The vessel was undamaged.
Thursday, July 16
·Notified Fish & Game personnel of two dead sea otters reported on the beach near Morro Creek.
Friday, July 17
·Emergency response to a commercial fisherman in a small disabled skiff off of Hazards Canyon in Montana de Oro. He was safely located and towed before becoming another boat in the surf since he had no anchor.
Sunday, July 19
·Warned and advised two scuba divers in the bay about proper use of dive flags and where not to dive.
·Assisted MBPD detain and arrest an intoxicated male at Tidelands dock area.
Tuesday, July 21
·Assisted MBPD locate a missing 3 year-old boy from the Morro Dunes trailer park. He and his father were located, apparently not missing at all.
·Assisted the visiting Coast Guard cutter Halibut find berthing accommodations for the night.
Friday, July 24
·Assisted Morro Bay Lifeguards with a surfer with a bad gash to his leg. He was treated and released to his parents for transport to a doctor.
·Assisted MBPD located a juvenile for Child Welfare Services.
·Went atop Black Hill to locate a kayak reported gone adrift from some day hikers on the sandspit. The kayak was spotted and its owners directed to its location.
Sunday, July 26
·Emergency response to a report of an unresponsive male at the base of Morro Rock. After a short search by Harbor, Police, and Fire personnel, the apparent victim of a fall from the Rock was located in the SE area, deceased from injuries suffered in the fall likely the night before.
Monday, July 27
·Took a report of a shark sighting from a surfer in Cayucos. After interviewing the witness, the report was deemed credible and the City’s shark sighting protocol was instituted - posting the city’s beach access areas with a warning.
·Checked on a report of a small hovercraft zipping about the bay. The craft was hauled and removed before Harbor Patrol arrival. Such craft, and anything propelled by “above-water propulsion,” is illegal in Morro Bay.
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