A Bar Harbor bicyclist and Gouldsboro ice fisherman survived their respective plunges through the ice of Eagle Lake on Mount Desert Island and Big Tunk Lake in Franklin in recent days.

Scott Bunker of Gouldsboro was towing his ice shack behind a Polaris all-terrain vehicle when the ATV broke through ice about an inch-and-a-half thick near Partridge Island on Big Tunk Lake shortly before 10 a.m. on Wednesday. Bunker was able to stay on top of the four-wheeler that remained afloat. Another fisherman called the Maine State Police, who alerted the Maine Warden’s Service.

As four game wardens responded to Big Tunk, some other ice fishermen helped Bunker get out of the icy water that was only about two-feet deep in that part of the lake, according to Maine Warden’s Service dispatcher Shelley Humphrey.

“ATVs will float. Our concern was it was going to flip over,” she said on Wednesday.

Humphrey said game warden pilot Roger Wolverton flew over the lake in his Cessna 185 to assess the situation and saw that Bunker was being assisted out of the water. She said game warden Phil White still responded to the scene.

“Other than having his feet wet, he was fine,” Humphrey said. She said Bunker continued ice fishing.