More on the Camp Algonquin Paddle Boat Accident

A friend took some photos of the Camp Algonquin paddle boat tragedy and gave me permission to use them.

Meanwhile, I have discovered that the helicopters were from Chicago television stations, not the Coast Guard. And the lights in the Chicago Tribune’s front page photo came from balloons tethered above the Fox River.

The one you see below was from ABC Channel 7.

You can see what its cameraman was watching.

The center of activity seems to have been this point at Camp Algonquin.

You can see it closer up above (and all photos can be enlarged by clicking on them.)

Boats were out in the middle of the Fox River looking for the bodies of the missing teenage boys.

You can see one from the Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District on the left and the West Dundee Fire Department on the right. The smoky Evinrude is on the West Dundee boat.

Enlarge the photo and you can see the pole with a curved metal extension for lifting things up.

A closer view. The hook is to the right at the beginning of the word “Dundee.”

The divers said the current below the seeming calm surface was a challenge. But, the divers did not find the first boy’s body.

It was discovered by a German Shepherd from the Lake in the Hills Police Department.

I didn’t know dogs could be used in water, but the boy’s scent apparently reached the dog’s nose as he lay near the bank.

The Lake in the Hills Police Department search dog handler worked 22 hours straight. He and his dog searched the other side of the Fox River, just in case the current might have taken another body to shallow water.


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