Baker said he will meet with Coast Guard officials today to determine if these trips will continue in the wake of the accident.
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Captain Jeremy Shockley of the commercial fishing boat, the Lady Ka Kee says he heard the Mayday call and grabbed a crew and went out to find the sinking boat.
The Coast Guard said 22 people were rescued.
The Navy used the Bloodsworth Island Range for live-ordinance training from 1942 to 1995, according to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, which warns against trespassing too close to shore.
Local crabbers are being hailed as heroes after the rescue of 23 people including 14 children from a stricken boat on the Chesapeake Bay.
The U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement it received a distress alert Wednesday saying a boat had sunk off Bloodsworth Island. Kent School officials said the students also put on a second life jacket on the boat.Those aboard were quickly rescued by a waterman who was either fishing or crabbing nearby, police officials said.
The accident happened at around 6 p.m. Wednesday, according to Candi Thompson, spokeswoman for the Maryland Natural Resources Police. “They all had life jackets on”.
“I had no idea it was tiny kids, children, it was a horrific sight”, Jeremy Shockley said.
The boat was carrying a fourth-grade class from the Kent School in Chestertown, Maryland.
Baker told The Associated Press at the foundation’s Annapolis headquarters that the boat’s captain, Shawn Ridgely, is Coast Guard certified and has a “stellar reputation”, with an unblemished record during 10 years of foundation trips.
We are told other injured personnel were reportedly transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center via ambulance.
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