Swimmers honor late box truck driver who plunged off CBBT by swimming length of bridge
and last updated 2021-07-07 18:27:22-04
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Erik Mezick, husband and father of two teens, died surrounded by something he loved so much - the water. It was sad to see him pass in a drowning being such a strong swimmer, said Kevin Mezick, Erik s brother.
Mezick, age 47, died in December 2020. The box truck he was driving on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel towards Virginia Beach when he hit the guard rail, overturned and died plunging into 38 degree water. Erik touched people in a special way, said Coach Mike Lahey, coach of the Delmarva Dogfish.
The United States Naval base in San Diego is one of the largest and most important in the world, especially with respect to facing the rising threat of China. And, yet, the Secretary of the Navy has long left this base in the vulnerable position of having only one exit point for its massive flotilla of warships.
In Suez, we just witnessed why it is critically important for America to create a second functional opening for San Diego’s indispensable base. Likewise, the process of doing so presents a unique opportunity to build a series of breakwater wave-energy turbines that can produce significant green-energy for the region. As such, this second bay opening project should be a top national security imperative, as well as a centerpiece green-energy initiative in President Joe Biden s infrastructure bill.
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July 5, 2021
Salisbury, Maryland- To remember a life, that was taken too soon, a local swim team is making a 18 mile swim across the Chesapeake Bay for Erik Mezick.
24 members of his former swim team ,the DogFish, will swim together in a relay with the coast guard across the same body of water where he was tragically killed in December of 2020.
“He had the gift of the gab he was a great guy we spoke to him every morning in the gym and he was a great swimmer always hitting laps in the pool,” said DogFish coach Mike Lahey.
Lahey says organizers will be accompanied by coast guard throughout the swim, as traffic will still be going through the bay through out the swim.
Patrik Jordan Mathews, who prosecutors say is a member of a white-supremacist group called ‘the Base,’ entered his plea in federal court in Maryland on Thursday.
Gloucester man creates underwater memorials for those who want to spend forever in the ocean
Spending eternity underwater
and last updated 2021-05-14 09:20:54-04
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. â A Gloucester man is starting a new business in hopes of providing people around the country with a unique place to spend forever.
Brian Bayford is passionate for the coast and water.
News 3 met up with him under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel to discuss his new business called Reef in Peace.
âPeople may choose not to sit in a casket and do not want to sit on a shelf somewhere. This is just a good alternative, and now you become part of something that benefits ecosystems forever,â said Bayford.