Conestoga Boat 5-3 takes a state police trooper and a deputy coroner to the boating-accident scene near Hennery Island on the Susquehanna River on Friday.
Pequea Fire Company launches Boat 5-6. One man died in the boating accident, according to officials.
Conestoga Boat 5-3 returns with one of the victims (in yellow helmet).
A Holtwood man searching for American Indian artifacts was killed Friday in a boating accident on the frigid Susquehanna River.
Dale Robert Glick, 59, died when the boat he and a friend were in capsized about 4:14 p.m. in the 36-degree water, police said.
Lancaster County Deputy Coroner Jim Ligg pronounced Glick dead at the scene before taking the body to the county morgue.
Chief Deputy Coroner Eric Bieber ruled the death accidental, caused by freshwater drowning due to hypothermia.
Police said both men were wearing life preservers and hip waders at the time of the incident, which occurred just off the shore of Hennery Island.
Witnesses from local fire rescue boats said Glick and an unidentified friend were operating a small, aluminum flat-bottom boat.
Trooper Anthony L. Holloway, an investigator with Pennsylvania state police, said the men were only about 10 yards off Hennery Island when the "water became rough and a wave came over the bow of the boat, causing it to fill with water and capsize."
Glick's friend, who has a cabin on the island, swam toward land to get his kayak while Glick clung to the boat.
But before he could reach the capsized boat, Glick had slipped back into the water and began swimming to shore, police said.
The victim "succumbed to the cold water and drowned at that time," Holloway said.
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