About that canceled water-rescue callout: Kayaker OK

Yet another “just in case you were wondering” – and the inbox indicates some were: The big “water rescue” callout on Alki this past hour south of Alki Point turned out to be more or less a false alarm and was canceled fairly quickly – Christopher Boffoli checked it out for WSB and says the last medic unit left on scene (in his photo above) told him the call was for a kayaker that was briefly in trouble – fell out of the kayak but was dressed for the cold water and got to shore OK.

Alki Resident April 13, 2013 (1:08 pm)

I’ll never forget the day they lost and found a scuba diver on that beach. He had passed away. It was such a sad day for everyone that came to that rescue.