Who wouldn’t recognize this guy?
Actor Russell Crowe was forced to hail down the U.S. Coast Guard Saturday night after nearly drifting out to sea while kayaking off the coast of Long Island.
The USCG says that a rescue boat from Coast Guard Station Eaton’s Necks in N.Y. was on patrol in Huntington Bay when they were flagged down by Crowe and his friend around 10 p.m. after the two had lost their way while kayaking.
The 48-year-old actor and his friend ran into trouble after launching from Cold Spring Harbor Saturday night when sea conditions unexpectedly worsened, sending the two a bit further from shore than both had hoped. The two men were picked up with their kayaks by the Coast Guard boat crew and taken to Huntington Harbor.
“It is common for the Coast Guard to assist boaters like this, but it was very cool to help Russell Crowe and his friend,” said Petty Officer 2nd Class Robert Swieciki, the boat coxswain for the case. “Crowe and his friend were very grateful to get a lift.”
In Crowe’s defense, gCaptain’s facebook page has acknowledge that Huntington Bay, LI can be treacherous, especially when the wind picks up.
PS: Rumor has it the Coast Guard crews did not recognize Crowe.
"CG did not recognize Crowe…" Well of course not. He was out of uniform and sporting a beard like he's entering the Key West Hemingway Look-Alike Contest. And besides, what captain of a third-rater paddles around in an Eskimo Drowning Machine? Silly old Crow(e).
….Anyone can have problems !
We`re all human and we do off the wall things. This could happen to you in your BOAT……………….
I never said he had a problem. I was joking about the photo posted by Mr. Schuler of Crowe in Master and Commander, and the way he probably looked in the boat, with a full beard, and the CG did not recognize him. Little joke. Play on appearances. Do you know how to laugh? I don’t care if he has problems or not – who gives a rat’s arse? And no, it could NOT happen to me in my boat, and I don’t bloody kayak, either. Please cut the namby-pamby-politically correct hypersensitivity stuff before it sours my stomach. Cripes.
It’s tempting to laugh but this could happen to anyone. Hard for folks in our society to accept that there are still elements where we are completely at the mercy of the whims of nature.
I don’t follow the whole celebrity gossip thing (never understood it) but it is gratifying to me to find out that Crowe is a boater. There is nothing on Earth that builds and defines a man’s character more than going out on the open water on a boat. I’m glad to see he doesn’t just pretend to be a lover of the sea.