8:32 PM: Seattle Fire is sending a water-rescue response to Constellation Park. Updates to come.
8:37 PM: Medics also have been sent to Don Armeni. We don’t know what the circumstances were but one patient is reported to be on board a Port of Seattle vessel; they’ll be transferred to an SFD boat and taken to Don Armeni.
8:42 PM: Patient is described as a “31-year-old man who was in the water an hour, hour and a half.” He is reported to have been kayaking.
Oh wow, thats awhile to tread in cold waters, hope they they will be okay.
From the perspective of a fellow kayaker, I am curious to know he lost his kayak.
I paddled there yesterday earlier in the day. There was some chop by the lighthouse that was not to bad, but the wakes from ferries would push a set of 4-5 ft. waves through all that and it would be sketchy for a newbie. There were paddlers in sit-on-top kayaks out there. If one of those waves dumped your boat and you were not tethered you could end up like this person.
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