OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) – If you find yourself in a desperate situation on an icy river or lake, there’s only one man to call.
Don Herman is the owner of Sunk? Dive and Ice Service in Oshkosh and he says it’s been an average winter when it comes to pulling vehicles from dire circumstances. He say his business normally does 15 to 30 rescues annually. So far this year they’ve done 20 recoveries.
“That’s snowmobiles, four-wheelers, vehicles, whatever falls in,” said Herman. “You never know what’s going to happen.”
Herman recalls one of his bigger rescues; pulling a semi-truck from Lake Butte des Morts a couple of years ago.
“That took us two days because it was full of engines and that stuff. It actually went off the road, went out on the lake and sunk.”
On that rescue, they were only allowed to work at night on that job and it took his team 14 hours to recover the truck.
Herman says it usually takes his team 3-4 hours to complete a rescue, charging $600-$1000 an hour depending on the difficultly of the situation.
