BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 5, 2024
Maine Warden Nick Bartholomew told his story Tuesday for the first time after he went through the ice on his snowmobile last week while searching for an overdue snowmobiler on Moosehead Lake. “I immediately recognized the feeling of my snowmobile going through the ice and into the water. Before I knew it, I was in the water, swimming as my snowmobile sank below me,” Bartholomew said. He was wearing a float coat and a helmet when he went into the water. He got his arms up on the good ice, kicked his legs and pulled himself out of the water onto the ice. Social media is teeming with mentions of snowmobiles having broken through the unsafe ice this winter. One man died this season. The State does not have an actual count because people don’t report them as they should.