The Ideal Rescue
I’d say that you can’t get any more 'textbook perfect' than this:
Coast Guard assists Hatteras charter boat taking on water
By The Voice on August 10, 2018
The Good Times transiting Barney Slough. (USCG)
Coast Guard helicopter and boat crews helped eight people on a Hatteras charter boat that ran in to trouble Thursday about 30 miles southeast of Hatteras Inlet.
The crew of another vessel called Coast Guard Sector North Carolina at 12:21 p.m., reporting that the Good Times, a 44-foot boat with eight people aboard, was taking on water.
An Air Station Elizabeth City MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew dropped off their rescue swimmer and a dewatering pump to help get flooding under control.
Shortly after the helicopter arrived, a Station Hatteras Inlet 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew arrived to assist and ensure they made it back safely.
The 47-foot boat crew followed them to Hatteras Inlet, where the station’s 24-foot shallow water boat escorted them to Scott Boatyard in Buxton to get hauled out.
Semper Paratus!
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