Jetty

Making your way across the jetty at Sandy Point State Park is like walking on bowling balls. Wet ones. The rocks have a way of channeling feet this way and that into the nasty spaces between them, a perfect geometric formula for sending a tackle box one way and a rod the other in the best case, or delivering a skinned knee, an ankle sprain or worse. Despite trying conditions, anglers take their chances for access to the Chesapeake Bay to fish in the shadow of the Bay Bridge. Why? They don't have boats, and the state of Maryland, for all of its shoreline, has few places for those folks to wet a line.

A boat crashed into a jetty in Herring Bay near Deale on Thursday afternoon, injuring at least two of four people on board, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. About 5:55 p.m., rescue units from both Anne Arundel and Calvert counties - Deale skirts the line between the two - responded to the jetty near Rockhold Creek for reports of a "pleasure boat" having crashed into the jetty, said Lt. Keith Hamilton, a department spokesman. Personnel from Calvert County were the first to arrive, and pulled all four passengers from the crashed boat onto their fire boat before heading to shore, Hamilton said.

A boat crashed into a jetty in Herring Bay near Deale on Thursday afternoon, injuring at least two of four people on board, according to the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. About 5:55 p.m., rescue units from both Anne Arundel and Calvert counties - Deale skirts the line between the two - responded to the jetty near Rockhold Creek for reports of a "pleasure boat" having crashed into the jetty, said Lt. Keith Hamilton, a department spokesman. Personnel from Calvert County were the first to arrive, and pulled all four passengers from the crashed boat onto their fire boat before heading to shore, Hamilton said.

An Eastern Shore man is dead and two people remained hospitalized after their small boat hit the south jetty at Kent Narrows late Sunday, police said. The body of David R. Whitlow, 43, was recovered at 12:30 p.m. Monday by a team from Charles County Dive Rescue, Maryland Natural Resources Police Lt. A.A. Windemuth said. Whitlow, of Hebron in Wicomico County, was thrown from the 21-foot-Boston Whaler when it hit the concrete jetty at about 11 p.m. Sunday, Windemuth said. He was one of four people on board for the trip from Annapolis to Kent Narrows, Windemuth said.

PORT DEPOSIT -- This historic Susquehanna River town will take a big step toward becoming a Cecil County tourist attraction tomorrow when it begins advertising for bids on the construction for a long-planned restoration of its waterfront property. Plans call for the development of a waterfront park and marina and reconstruction of a jetty that the Navy built during World War II. Sailors attending boot camp at the Bainbridge Naval Training Center, on a plateau above town, would pack the pier, waiting to clamber into one of the more than 100 whaleboats docked there so they could practice maneuvers up and down the river.

A cabin cruiser returning Saturday night from a fishing trip on the Chesapeake Bay slammed into a stone jetty, tossing the boat's five occupants into Herring Bay and leaving one of them in critical condition.Erin M. Hitt, 32, of Bowie, who broke his jaw during the accident, was in critical condition yesterday at Prince George's Hospital Center in Cheverly, where he underwent surgery, a hospital spokeswoman said. The four others were treated at the scene for minor injuries.Maryland Department of Natural Resources investigators were not sure why the boat hit the jetty and will continue to investigate, said DNR spokesman Richard McIntyre.

Port Deposit has added a path to walk along the Susquehanna River, a pier for fishing and bird watching, and a spot for launching boats into the waterway to its already scenic amenities. The Cecil County town that traces its founding to the early 19th century will dedicate the $2.3 million Marina Park Riverwalk and Jetty at the south end of Main Street at 10 a.m. Thursday. The project, which has been a decade in the planning, should draw boaters and anglers from the river and motorists traveling along Interstate 95 to the town of 700, officials said.

Residents in Tracy's Landing and Deale are raising questions about a proposed $3.2 million jetty slated for the mouth of Rockhold Creek in southern Anne Arundel County. The county and the Army Corps of Engineers-Baltimore District say building the jetty is necessary to reduce shoaling at the entrance channel and to protect boats docked nearby from storm damage. Residents, however, are worried about possible flooding, environmental damage and losing their waterfront views. At a public meeting last week, about 110 residents, watermen and business people showed up to listen as engineers explained how the jetty project would work.

It's just equal piles of boulders and sand right now, pieces of a puzzle. But by the time the water warms and the anglers return to Sandy Point State Park, the pieces will be in their proper places as part of a $548,000 fishing platform jutting into the Chesapeake Bay. The idea belonged to Severn angler Skip Zinck. The spark was supplied by Maryland Parks Superintendent Nita Settina. The financial juice came from the Waterway Improvement Fund, which consists of the five percent tax collected when a boat is titled in the state.

A man who apparently drowned Sunday in Ocean City while trying to save his two sons from being swept out to sea has been identified as a Wicomico County resident originally from Haiti, said a spokesman for the resort's police department. Pfc. Barry Neeb said Fruitland resident Renald Charles, 38, his wife and their four children were spending the day on the beach near the jetty at the south end of town when two sons, ages 10 and 13, entered the water shortly before 6 p.m. They became caught in a riptide that carried them toward the jetty's rocks and the inlet beyond the jetty.

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It's just equal piles of boulders and sand right now, pieces of a puzzle. But by the time the water warms and the anglers return to Sandy Point State Park, the pieces will be in their proper places as part of a $548,000 fishing platform jutting into the Chesapeake Bay. The idea belonged to Severn angler Skip Zinck. The spark was supplied by Maryland Parks Superintendent Nita Settina. The financial juice came from the Waterway Improvement Fund, which consists of the five percent tax collected when a boat is titled in the state.

Making your way across the jetty at Sandy Point State Park is like walking on bowling balls. Wet ones. The rocks have a way of channeling feet this way and that into the nasty spaces between them, a perfect geometric formula for sending a tackle box one way and a rod the other in the best case, or delivering a skinned knee, an ankle sprain or worse. Despite trying conditions, anglers take their chances for access to the Chesapeake Bay to fish in the shadow of the Bay Bridge. Why? They don't have boats, and the state of Maryland, for all of its shoreline, has few places for those folks to wet a line.

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A man who apparently drowned Sunday in Ocean City while trying to save his two sons from being swept out to sea has been identified as a Wicomico County resident originally from Haiti, said a spokesman for the resort's police department. Pfc. Barry Neeb said Fruitland resident Renald Charles, 38, his wife and their four children were spending the day on the beach near the jetty at the south end of town when two sons, ages 10 and 13, entered the water shortly before 6 p.m. They became caught in a riptide that carried them toward the jetty's rocks and the inlet beyond the jetty.

A Wicomico County man drowned yesterday evening near the jetty off the southern edge of Ocean City while trying to save his two sons, who were being washed out to sea by a strong riptide, said the head of the city's beach patrol. The name of the 38-year-old Fruitland man was not released. Shortly before 6 p.m., about 20 minutes after lifeguards left their stations, a 911 call was made by someone reporting that two boys, ages 10 and 13, were being pushed out to sea by a southerly riptide and were heading toward the rocky jetty between the public beach and the inlet, said Capt.

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A Wicomico County man drowned yesterday evening near the jetty off the southern edge of Ocean City while trying to save his two sons, who were being washed out to sea by a strong riptide, said the head of the city's beach patrol. The name of the 38-year-old Fruitland man was not released. Shortly before 6 p.m., about 20 minutes after lifeguards left their stations, a 911 call was made by someone reporting that two boys, ages 10 and 13, were being pushed out to sea by a southerly riptide and were heading toward the rocky jetty between the public beach and the inlet, said Capt.

Port Deposit has added a path to walk along the Susquehanna River, a pier for fishing and bird watching, and a spot for launching boats into the waterway to its already scenic amenities. The Cecil County town that traces its founding to the early 19th century will dedicate the $2.3 million Marina Park Riverwalk and Jetty at the south end of Main Street at 10 a.m. Thursday. The project, which has been a decade in the planning, should draw boaters and anglers from the river and motorists traveling along Interstate 95 to the town of 700, officials said.