{"id":8622,"date":"2009-06-10T08:55:52","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2009-06-10T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:00:07","slug":"mt-baker-snowboarder-presumed-drowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=8622","title":{"rendered":"Mt. Baker Snowboarder Presumed Drowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/donkey.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/donkey.jpg','popup','width=574,height=741,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/donkey-tm.jpg\" height=\"258\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Donkey\" \/><\/a>Mt. Baker snowboarder <strong>Sean &#8220;Donkey&#8221; Mansfield<\/strong> and photographer <strong>Gunther Frank <\/strong>are both missing and presumed drowned after Frank&#8217;s 18 foot sailboat apparently capsized near Washington State\u2019s Bellingham Bay in the early morning hours of Friday June 5, 2009 with six people on board, according to a story on the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frqncy.com\/news\/2009\/06\/08\/mt.-baker-rider-sean-donkey-mansfield-missing-in-bellingham-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Frequency The Snowboard Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong> website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At approximately 1:40 am on Friday, June 5, Bellingham Police responded to a call from a resident, reporting a woman at her door, wet and cold, describing a capsizing. While the police were taking statements another survivor came up the street. The Port Angeles Coast Guard station dispatched a rescue helo along with a cutter from the Bellingham CG station at 2 am. As well, Whatcom County Sheriff, Bellingham Fire, Search and Rescue and US Border Patrol assisted in the search. At approximately 4 am another woman, stranded on a tidal cliff, was rescued by the Coast Guard Cutter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The four others (two who reportedly stayed with the boat and the two women who swam to shore) survived. According to Frequency publisher <strong>Jeff Galbraith<\/strong> Donkey, who was sponsored by Volcom, Lib Tech and the Mt. Baker Snwoboard Shop, was &#8220;one of the most respected and creative riders to grace the slopes of Mt. Baker in the last 15 years.&#8221; Friends have posted a website (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/donkeyandgunther.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/donkeyandgunther.blogspot.com<\/a><\/strong>) with more information. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Mansfield and Frank.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frqncy.com\/news\/2009\/06\/08\/mt.-baker-rider-sean-donkey-mansfield-missing-in-bellingham-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Frqncy.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mt. Baker snowboarder Sean &#8220;Donkey&#8221; Mansfield and photographer Gunther Frank are both missing and presumed drowned after Frank&#8217;s 18 foot sailboat apparently capsized near Washington State\u2019s Bellingham Bay in the early morning hours of Friday June 5, 2009 with six people on board, according to a story on the Frequency The Snowboard Journal website. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}