Nothing to do with this, but I have helped in a missing persons case before to find that the police can arrest you (me) for assisting and interfering in police business.
KLF73, are you here in Maine? Sounds familiar to an event that is going on locally.
It is sad, just tragic that these things happen and it is a common occurance these days with the cigg boats. Maine and NE lakes are not good for these types of water craft. From wildlife that is killed often the young is washed up to shore, to boats being cut in half while out star watching on a date.
Sad.
It is unfortunate that the good semaritan law does not cover these, yet if for instance you stand in a crowd not daring to touch someone on the ground bleeding, and you have a first aid/first responder certificate/License, you best keep moving. Somewhere someone will find you liable for not doing what you was "Trained" to do.
This country is so sue happy, not looking at our neighbor trying to help us out, but to look at them as an income, stealing from them or even when you do not want to sue, the insurance companies will!
This is what happened to a friend of the family, this mature gentleman, retired 3 years from HVAC, a neighbor couple well into their elder years, no money and their furnace quit. So the retired HVAC went over, cleaned it, replace the replaceable and a few months later the furnace caught fire (back when Miller was having trailer fires) and the retired man was sued for a replacement trailer.
No good deed goes unnoticed. Sad world, of course the elderly couple got out of the fire and proudly said their neighbor helped them out...
Use caution when doing for anyone, pick up your cords, tools, water pails. Stay off my land and I'll stay off yours and we can live in our bubble wrap world of worry and fear.
Times, they are a changing.