Photo: Santa Barabra County Fire Department
Two college students from California took arts and crafts to a new level this weekend when they took a homemade boat made out of buckets, duct tape and kiddie pools out into the Pacific Ocean.
According to theNoozhawk, two male students were rescued early Saturday morning near Isla Vista, a community located near UC Santa Barbara in Southern California.
The makeshift vessel was made out of 20 buckets, plywood, duct tape and two plastic kiddie pools, pictures show.
“If Nautical Nonsense Is Something You Wish — Two male students in their 20’s were rescued unharmed at 2:37 a.m.,” wrote Santa Barbara County Fire Department PIO Mike Eliason onTwitterof the would-be seafarers.
“Sat off Isla Vista after they were unable to return to shore in their boat fashioned from duct tape, buckets, and kiddie pools,” he added. “Alcohol was not a factor.”
The men were not engineering majors, Noozhawk added of the students.
Santa Barabra County Fire Department
“The tide kept pushing them further and further from shore approximately — 300 yards before County Fire was summoned,” Eliason said, according to Noozhawk.
“They didn’t seem to be in any distress, but they were just floating out there,” he added to theLos Angeles Times.
“We managed to bring them back to shore and they were grateful. I just wish they had planned whatever they were doing a little better,” he continued.
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The boat may have been part of a school project, theTimes reported.Neither the students' names nor school were publicly revealed.
“The two young mariners who fashioned their own watercraft were very fortunate that someone saw them, that they were out at sea, and notified authorities,” Eliason said, according to Noozhawk. “As they were unable to make their way back to shore in their boat made of made of plastic buckets and kiddie pools.”
It was a busy weekend for rescue workers in the area. A man in his 60s was also saved around 4 a.m. Saturday after hebecame trapped between two wooden pilingsalong Goleta Beach Pier.
source: people.com
