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Believe that orange air boat with the Moultonborough Fire Dept in the photo above was donated by the parents of a 15-year old boy who broke through the ice on a snowmobile on Lake Winnipesaukee in Alton, off Rattlesnake near The Broads on Saturday, Feb 11, 2017 at about 2:30-pm. His body was recovered in 73-feet water the next day, Sunday, Feb 12 at about 9:30-am by a remote control submersible that was operated by the N.H. recovery team which was able to both locate the dead body and recover it to the surface.

You know wearing a foam noodle, swim belt tied around the waist and underneath a coat while snowmobiling will work very good to keep you afloat because it will ride up to the arm pits, under the arms and keep your head above water.

As soon as you break through the icy cold water, it is extremely painful, a cold shock type of pain, and you are all scared, smashed, and incredibly cold, and panicked all at the same time. You need to stay composed, and stay above the water, and any type of flotation, either a pfd or an improvised foam noodle belt will keep your head up despite the deadly cold impact pain and panic and do a lot to keep you alive.

After two minutes floating up to your neck in 34-degree icy cold water, it becomes less painful, less cold shocked because your body adjusts to the cold and you is good for maybe 15-minutes before your fingers, hands, and feet will freeze up and are no longer very usable. After the initial scary crash plunge if you survive the first two minutes, then you got about 15-minutes to do a self rescue.

Info from Laconia Daily Sun, Feb 12th, 2017: "Three dead after snowmobiles plunge into Lake" in two separate incidents in Alton, Broads side of Rattlesnake, and Moultonborough, Sandy Island.

Two men, ages 68 and 62 from Westboro, Mass who were riding on two snowmobiles in Moultonborough on Lake Winnipesaukee broke through the ice at around noon and lost their life by drowning.