CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard led a man and his teenage daughter back to the Lake Erie shoreline and
safety in western Ohio after they became disoriented while snowmobiling during a snow squall.
The 18-year-old daughter called 911 around 5:30 p.m. Saturday after she and her father became lost
traveling on snowmobile between South Bass Island and Catawba Island.
Coast Guard personnel from Detroit used an airboat and a helicopter to find the pair by pinging a
cellphone to locate them. The father and daughter had taken shelter in an ice-fishing shanty on the lake
while awaiting help. The daughter rode in the airboat back to shore while the father followed on his
snowmobile. Neither was injured.
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