Two people were rescued from Puget Sound near Edmonds after falling off a sailboat Saturday morning, according to South County Fire.A man and woman were pulled out of the water by a Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office rescue boat around 11:30 a.m., according to the fire department. They were brought to the Edmonds marina.They were rushed to Swedish in Edmonds, where one was in serious condition. The other boater’s injuries were not considered life-threatening.oth boaters were wearing life jackets.Puget Sound was choppy due to wind Saturday morning, with gusts up to 41 mph at Sea-Tac International Airport, according to the National Weather Service.They are really going to contribute to a lot of great science. A lot of improvements to warning about storm surge, hurricane forecasting, and all those things,” said Brian Connon with Ocean Mapping and SAILDRONE.
It’s not just a sailboat, it’s a self-driven sailboat with technology that will help researchers map the ocean floor around Florida.
“48% is unmapped so there’s so much we don’t know that’s under the water, especially in this part of the Gulf,” said Connon.
The boat called the SAILDRONE Voyager will spend the next month circling St. Pete using sonar to collect information.
“We know when the sound leaves the boat, then it hits the bottom and gets reflected back, and so by using the time
difference of when that happens, that’s how you determine the depth of the water,” said Connon.
Connon said the sonar paints a picture of everything on the sea floor.Looking for habitats, even new corals we don’t know about could be wrecks that haven’t been discovered,” he said.The information will also be used for hurricane forecasting
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