Actually such jurisdictional issues are not exclusive to F&G.
A quick story, several years ago my Coast Guard Aux Flotilla was meeting at a boathouse on the Merrimack River in Lowell. In addition to the 25 or 30 members of the Coast Guard Aux, the Master Chief Warrent Officer of Group Boston was in attendance with a PO.
Anyway, during the meeting a power boat hit an unlighted canoe about 100 yards away from where we were meeting. I personally told the fire capt of the availability of 30 members of Team Coast Guard to immediately assist in the search as well as several additional boats (and at that point a helo might have been available equipped with sunstar and heat seeking devices) I was told flat out, no, they had it under control.
The bodies weren't recovered for a week.
dpg....from what I heard of the story the gentleman who remains missing was able to push his fiance/girlfriend toward the boat that was drifting away faster than they could swim to it, then he went under....unless I am confusing the two incidents.
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