The Coast Guard mounted a boating-related search and rescue operation off Edgemere Drive in Greece after callers to 911 reported seeing a derelict kayak floating on Lake Ontario.
A Coast Guard water rescue team went in and towed the kayak to shore. Because they found a line attached to a stake secured to the kayak, they believe it was washed from someone’s yard by the flood waters this week. But the Coast Guard called in a search boat and a helicopter and proceeded to criss-cross the lake off Edgemere Drive to make sure someone wasn’t in the water.
A spokesman said they always have to proceed as though lives are at stake until it confirms otherwise.