{"id":1138,"date":"2003-08-06T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2003-08-06T13:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/06\/teacher-saves-trapped-crewman\/"},"modified":"2003-08-06T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2003-08-06T13:25:11","slug":"teacher-saves-trapped-crewman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/06\/teacher-saves-trapped-crewman\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Saves Trapped Crewman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a525'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Steamship Authority ferry Islander plies the waters between Cape Cod and Martha&#8217;s Vinyard daily, and periodically the Coast Guard requires they do surprize rescue drills. Yesterday, during one such drill, the lifeboat flipped over as it was launched, trapping a crew member underneath, his leg entangled in a rope.<\/p>\n<p>On the deck, while horrified passengers scanned the water looking for signs of the missing crewman, Farley Doucette, a high school teacher from Forked River, N.J., who was finishing up a vacation on the Vineyard and going home, stepped out of his shoes and handed his cell phone to a friend. He swam under the overturned boat and extricated Mr. Brooks&#8217;s leg from the rope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvgazette.com\/news\/2003\/08\/05\/boatline_crewmember_injured.php\">from the Vineyard Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Steamship Authority ferry Islander plies the waters between Cape Cod and Martha&#8217;s Vinyard daily, and periodically the Coast Guard requires they do surprize rescue drills. Yesterday, during one such drill, the lifeboat flipped over as it was launched, trapping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/06\/teacher-saves-trapped-crewman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}