CONCORD - On Tuesday, May 23, The Chamber, Leading Business in Cabarrus hosted Leadership Cabarrus Graduation and Homecoming, featuring the graduation of the Class of 2023’s 32 members.
Within 20 minutes, the pair realised they could be in trouble. “All of a sudden the engine cut out and a wave came straight over the top – that was half the boat. We started bailing out when the second wave came, really quickly.” The nose of the boat went up, tossing Ishigaki into the sea.
NZ POLICE
Police asked a local fisherman to help them rescue Zak Grammer and Jordan Ishigaki when their boat capsized in the Firth of Thames Grammer was pulled under the canopy and popped up to find his boat three-quarters underwater. Both men were able to don their life jackets and scramble onto a nearby chilly bin.
Local builder Bithell, however, tells a more modest story. The tradesman doesn’t call himself a lifesaver, but claims he just happened to be in the right place at the right time on the night of February 12. “I’ve never pulled someone out of the water,” Bithell told
Stuff.
A Thames local helped save two lives by ferrying police out to rescue them. “But I was confident in my abilities on the water having lived in the area my whole life. “I just thought hopefully if anything happened to me that someone else would do the same for me.” The missing men had been out fishing earlier that day when the weather deteriorated.