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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A group of 10th grade students from Providence's Met High School were treated for mild hypothermia Monday after a sailboat they were on overturned in Providence.
An instructor tells us the students were taking part in an outdoor science class about the physics of boating when a powerful gust of wind caused their boat to flip over.
"I think we just got a big gust of wind at the wrong time," says academic advisor Nathan Bonneau. "It just caught the main sail and just sent us up vertically."
Bonneau says he, the students, and a community boating instructor were in the chilly water of the Providence River for at least 15 minutes, until a fisherman and then a tugboat came to their rescue.
"The fisherman came out, he was over by the docks kind of off the side, he came out with a small single-motor boat and picked us up and kept us on there until the tugboat came out and got us," Bonneau explained.
An Eyewitness News crew was waiting at the Port of Providence when the commercial tugboat "The Puma" arrived at the dock.
The teenagers were wet and shivering as firefighters and EMTs wrapped the them in blankets. The students were transported to Hasbro Children's Hospital as a precaution.
"Even though they say they all feel good, one of the first signs of hypothermia is confusion," says Deputy Assistant Fire Chief Timothy McDaniel.
"They definitely all were in the early stages of hypothermia and we got a report of one leg injury which we're looking into right now."
A spokesperson for Met High School said Monday night all of the students had been released from the hospital.
An instructor tells us the students were taking part in an outdoor science class about the physics of boating when a powerful gust of wind caused their boat to flip over.
"I think we just got a big gust of wind at the wrong time," says academic advisor Nathan Bonneau. "It just caught the main sail and just sent us up vertically."
Bonneau says he, the students, and a community boating instructor were in the chilly water of the Providence River for at least 15 minutes, until a fisherman and then a tugboat came to their rescue.
"The fisherman came out, he was over by the docks kind of off the side, he came out with a small single-motor boat and picked us up and kept us on there until the tugboat came out and got us," Bonneau explained.
An Eyewitness News crew was waiting at the Port of Providence when the commercial tugboat "The Puma" arrived at the dock.
The teenagers were wet and shivering as firefighters and EMTs wrapped the them in blankets. The students were transported to Hasbro Children's Hospital as a precaution.
"Even though they say they all feel good, one of the first signs of hypothermia is confusion," says Deputy Assistant Fire Chief Timothy McDaniel.
"They definitely all were in the early stages of hypothermia and we got a report of one leg injury which we're looking into right now."
A spokesperson for Met High School said Monday night all of the students had been released from the hospital.