{"id":2637,"date":"2024-12-31T01:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T01:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2024-12-31T01:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T01:04:28","slug":"video-u-s-coast-guard-rescue-swimmer-saves-two-fishermen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Video: U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Saves Two Fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Video: U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Saves Two Fishermen<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew rescued two fishermen whose vessel capsized in rough weather off Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At about 1300 hours on Saturday, Sector San Juan received a DSC alert from an unregistered VHF radio. Shortly after, a good Samaritan called in a report of a disabled vessel off the coast of Desecheo Island. Three hours later, the sector&#8217;s watchstanders received more specific information in the form of a Channel 16 distress call. The crew of a small fishing boat reported that their vessel was disabled off Desecheo Island, and that they had previously sent the DSC alert.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Coast Guard Auxiliary airplane crew out of Air Station Borinquen located the two men and their disabled vessel. Sector San Juan dispatched a Jayhawk helicopter air crew to the scene, and the rescuers arrived at about 1700. They were just in time: the boat was taking on water in 6-8 foot seas and winds of up to 30 knots, and it capsized five minutes after the helicopter arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kQic5t_I-s\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The aircrew put their rescue swimmer in the water, and he safely transferred both survivors to a litter for hoisting, one after another. Both were delivered &#8211; uninjured but wet &#8211; to Air Station Borinquen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Emergencies at sea can happen at any given moment. We recommend all mariners wear their life jackets and carry a marine grade radio as these men did, in case they encounter an unexpected situation at sea,&#8221; said Lt. David Tirado Tolosa, Coast Guard Air Station Borinquen MH-60 aircraft commander.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.maritime-executive.com\/article\/video-u-s-coast-guard-rescue-swimmer-saves-two-fishermen\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: U.S. Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Saves Two Fishermen \u00a0 Over the weekend, a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew rescued two fishermen whose vessel capsized in rough weather off Desecheo Island, Puerto Rico.\u00a0 At about 1300 hours on Saturday, Sector San Juan received a DSC alert from an unregistered VHF radio. Shortly after, a good Samaritan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}