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'That was a hell of a time to learn how to swim'

Capital Gazette Communications
Published 07/31/10

A cooler of rockfish, spots and croakers is all Robert Avent and Joel Tuck intended to bring home to Pennsylvania from their fishing trip to Love Point last weekend.

Courtesy of Anne Arundel County Police Department Joel Tuck’s 20-foot Sea Ox fishing boat took on water and overturned near Love Point on July 24, causing Tuck, his three children and Robert Avent to fall overboard.

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But instead of fish, the men and Tuck's three sons brought home a harrowing story of being rescued after their boat overturned in 20 feet of water in the mouth of the Chester River north of Kent Island on July 24.

Four good Samaritans who were fishing and county police who were patrolling the Magothy River on the department's Boston Whaler, The Whaler, pulled the men and children from the water. Avent, who describes himself as a "large...

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