Even before his flight training at Hovercraft Training Centers, Sgt.
Rick Holtgrave of the Branch County Sheriff’s Department in Coldwater, Michigan
knew that there are no reliable alternatives to hovercraft as the best rescue
vehicle for his team’s dangerous missions on icy Lake Michigan: "We're
just screwed if we have to go out on a bad ice,” he said, “There is no other
equipment. Otherwise, we'd just be pushing boats and ropes and hoping for...
