Mike Manning of MGM Builders in Windham was doing a good deed early Thursday morning — plowing a path across the ice so that ice fisherman could reach their shacks — when his truck crashed through the ice of Jordan Bay in Sebago Lake.
A GMC 5500 pickup truck sank into Jordan Bay 1500 feet off Raymond Beach at 3:30 a.m. Thursday.
Lake water fills the cab of the pick-up truck. A coffee cup floats.
Diver Jim Buxton and SeaTow owner Warner Ogden discuss strategy on how to properly lift the submerged truck without it flipping over.
Jim Buxton a diver for SeaTow, which is based in Portland, arises from the cold water after affixing lift bags to the bottom of the truck.
A hole had to be cut with a chainsaw to allow a diver to get beneath the submerged truck.
From left, diver Jim Buxton, Gary Connell from Advanced Towing and Dick Stewart from Stewart Towing discuss how they will wrap a heavy gauge cable around the truck’s front axle.
The cable was attached to a Stewart’s Towing heavy-duty tow truck parked 1,500 feet away at the Raymond boat ramp.
Dick Stewart, center, and others work to prepare the winch to tow the pickup truck to shore.
Heavy Hauling is the name of the game where you’re trying to dislodge a 16,000-pound pick up truck loaded down with thousands of pounds of water and entombed in six feet of slushy ice.
Mike Manning of MGM Builders in Windham was doing a good deed (plowing a way so ice fishermen could access their shacks) when his heavy truck fell through the ice on Jordan Bay. Manning was driving back through a section he had already plowed when the truck cracked through the ice.
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