Rescue in Stormy Sea - A volunteer firemen from Rehoboth Beach, Del., swims through boiling water in lower Delaware Bay today to side of an oil barge crewman washed overboard after the barge, struck by heavy seas and high winds, broke loose from his tug.
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Rescue in Stormy Sea - A volunteer firemen from Rehoboth Beach, Del., swims through boiling water in lower Delaware Bay today to side of an oil barge crewman washed overboard after the barge, struck by heavy seas and high winds, broke loose from his tug.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1968]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

[Information from item housing] Weather: Storms: 1950s - 70s: Wire Photos

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