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Members of U.S. Coast Guard Station Sault Sainte Marie and Air Station Traverse City rescued a missing ice fisherman on Lake Superior on Feb. 20, 2022.

Chippewa County reported the missing person as a 63-year-old man on a snowmobile towing an ice shanty. He had last been seen about one and a half miles off the shore of Lake Superior in Emerson, Michigan.

U.S. Coast Guard Sector Sault Sainte Marie launched an Ice-Rescue Team from Station Sault Sainte Marie, and the Coast Guard Ninth District launched an MH-60 helicopter from Air Station Traverse City. The helicopter crew quickly located a heat source about two miles south of the man's last known position.

The Ice-Rescue Team went to that location and found him. He was taken back to a staging area for evaluation by awaiting EMS personnel, then returned to his family near Emerson. No injuries were reported.