The Swimmer to the rescue!!!

From the Federalist Patriot:

Fortunately Kennedy didn't wait until the next day to report the incident, as was the case in the 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne.

Ted Kennedy to the rescue! Last Sunday, Senator Ted Kennedy was walking his two Portuguese waterdogs on the shore of his family compound in tony Hyannisport, when he noticed six men stranded by high tide on a jetty. Kennedy claims he made several attempts to rescue the men in his Boston Whaler (now you know why they call 'em "whalers") but said it was too dangerous and he turned back. Kennedy then called the Hyannis fire department, which eventually rescued the men and transported them to Cape Cod Hospital with mild hypothermia. Fortunately for the Stranded Six, Kennedy didn't wait until the next day to report the incident, as was the case in 1969, when the young senator, completely inebriated, drove his car off a small bridge into a few feet of water on Chappaquiddick Island. The car overturned, trapping Mary Jo Kopechne, who died sometime later when the air pocket in the car was exhausted. Being a man of the people, Kennedy was never held accountable for the death of Miss Kopechne. To the great shame of his state and his Party, Massachusetts Demos have retained him in the Senate ever since—though some moderate elements in the state party suggest it's just to keep him out of the state.