{"id":4981,"date":"2025-02-19T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=4981"},"modified":"2025-02-19T01:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T01:02:14","slug":"video-u-s-coast-guard-aircrew-rescues-man-from-wave-washed-rockface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=4981","title":{"rendered":"Video: U.S. Coast Guard Aircrew Rescues Man From Wave-Washed Rockface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Video: U.S. Coast Guard Aircrew Rescues Man From Wave-Washed Rockface<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>In a dramatic rescue captured on video, a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew retrieved a man from a wave-washed rock pinnacle off the coast of Manati, Puerto Rico earlier this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the 911 call center in Manati received a report that a person had gone over the cliff face and into the water near Playa Esperanza, a rocky shoreline 30 miles west of San Juan. The man managed to stay afloat and reach a rock formation, and he clung to the cliffside as powerful waves washed over him from below, threatening to knock him back into the water.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The call center notified Coast Guard Sector San Juan of the urgent need for a helicopter evacuation, and the sector dispatched a Jayhawk rescue crew out of Air Station Borinquen. The aircrew quickly found the survivor and lowered away a rescue swimmer. Within seconds, despite the waves, the swimmer got a rescue sling around the survivor and hoisted him to safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/embed\/952708\" width=\"800\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After the hoist, the aircrew flew the survivor to a local airport for transfer to an awaiting ambulance. He was taken to the Centro Medico Hospital in San Juan for evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This rescue is a testament to the intentional and continuous training we conduct at Air Station Borinquen to intervene on someone\u2019s worst day and bring them to safety,&#8221; said Lt. Luke M. Dewhirst, the pilot and commander for the mission. &#8220;I am incredibly proud of the safe and efficient work by the crew of 6038, as well as the expert coordination by our operations watchstander and personnel at Sector San Juan.&#8221;<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-aircrew-rescues-man-from-wave-washed-rockface\">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 Aircrew Rescues Man From Wave-Washed Rockface \u00a0 In a dramatic rescue captured on video, a U.S. Coast Guard aircrew retrieved a man from a wave-washed rock pinnacle off the coast of Manati, Puerto Rico earlier this week.\u00a0 On Monday, the 911 call center in Manati received a report that a person [&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-4981","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\/4981"}],"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=4981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}