Captain, passenger escape burning boat
Staff and wire reports • December 15, 2009
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Two people were rescued Monday from a burning powerboat off Ocean City, Md., officials said.




The 40-foot Viking sport-fishing boat My Col Col was heading north in the Atlantic Ocean when it caught fire about 200 yards off of 118th Street about 7:50 a.m., Maryland Natural Resources Police said.
The boat was being operated by David Lee Catrino, 41, of Ocean City, and he had one passenger, Ollie Charles Powell, 38, of Berlin, Md. While two Coast Guard rescue boats and a commercial towing service were en route to the scene, another nearby boat, the Get Some, arrived and took Catrino and Powell aboard. They were then transferred to the tow boat. By 9:30 a.m., the boat had burned close to the water line, said Petty Officer John Miller, a spokesman with the Coast Guard in Portsmouth, Va.
The boat was towed to the shoreline, where firefighters from Ocean City extinguished the blaze. No one was hurt.