Secret Service Saves Bush From Boat Jam
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KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — The Secret Service bailed President Bush out of a jam when his boat anchor got wedged in rocks in the Atlantic off the Bush family estate at Walker’s Point.
The president, fishing with his father, President George H.W. Bush, and daughter Barbara, dropped anchor to fish less than 100 feet from shore at Biddeford, Maine, but when they decided to leave, they couldn’t.
A member of the president’s security detail called divers aboard a Secret Service boat following behind.
The anchor was untied, and the elder Mr. Bush backed his boat, a blue-and-white craft named Fidelity III, out of the way. After a diver dove down into the chilly water, the president resumed fishing.
Within minutes, the diver surfaced with the anchor in hand.
