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Marriage proposal turns into a water rescue

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HURON COUNTY, MI (WNEM) -

Huron County sheriff's deputies were dispatched over Labor Day weekend to help locate a distressed canoe that had two Detroit-area residents aboard.

Sheriff Kelly Hanson said the rescue happened on Sept. 1 after the canoe had left from the Drury Lane area of Sand Point, on Wild Fowl Bay, with 27-year-old Nathan M. Bluestein, of Northville, and 32-year-old May R. Gorial, of Madison Heights. Wild Fowl Bay is a smaller bay inside the Saginaw Bay, in Lake Huron.

Deputies said they were unable to row back to shore because of the strong northerly wind flow and 3' to 5' seas.  Authorities said the occupants kept getting pushed further out into the bay while deputies were enroute with the department's Caseville patrol boat. 

They eventually came ashore on North Island and were retrieved by the sheriff's crew, along with their property. While transporting the victims back, deputies learned the canoe trip was originally intended to be a marriage proposal. 

Apparently the proposal was finally given on North Island with Gorial accepting. 

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