Robert F. Dalton died after attempting to save David B. Reynolds, Jr., from drowning, Sandwich, Massachusetts, June 7, 1996. Reynolds, 51, and Dalton, 56, retired executive, were fishing in Old Harbor Creek where it emptied into Cape Cod Bay. When Reynolds began to lose his footing while in the creek, causing his waders to fill with water, Dalton approached and extended his fishing rod to him, but Reynolds was swept into the creek. Dalton next cast his line into Reynolds’s upraised hand, but then Dalton lost his footing, and both men were swept by the swift current into the bay, where the water temperature was 56 degrees. Another fisherman entered the bay, swam out to Reynolds, and returned him to shore. He was taken to the hospital for treatment of hypothermia, and he recovered. Dalton was removed from the bay by the Coast Guard, which had arrived shortly. He too was taken to the hospital, where he died of drowning the following day.
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