Mailboat rescues Florida man who allegedly tried to swim across Detroit River

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(CBS DETROIT) - A mailboat rescued a Florida man who was allegedly trying to swim from Canada to Detroit Monday night.

A J.W. Westcott crew was notified about a person who was swimming across the Detroit River, from Windsor to Detroit.

They launched the US Mail Boat J.W. Westcott II and started to search for the swimmer in the area of the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Centennial Park Development.

"Around 11:00 p.m. deckhand James Sharp spotted a man swimming inside a life ring that had been thrown to him by someone on shore in Windsor," the J.W. Westcott Company said in a release. "The Westcott maneuvered alongside where James and Captain Neil Schultheiss lifted the man onto the deck of the mail boat." ...............(more)

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/mailboat-rescues-florida-man-swim-detroit-river-canada-michigan/

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1. With the current in that river,

I’d guess he’d be in Lake Erie in no time.