Coast Guard pulls off wild rescue in Oregon
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Feb 6, 03:31 PM
The U.S. Coast Guard undertook the daring rescue of a suspected boat thief off the coast of Oregon earlier this month.
It began around 10 a.m. on Feb. 3, when Coast Guardsmen at Station Cape Disappointment received a mayday call from a man whose 35-foot Sandpiper boat had conked out roughly six miles west of where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific Ocean.
Video of the harrowing mission released by the service shows that the sea was raging with 20-foot waves and “extremely high windspeeds,” according to a Coast Guard release.
In defiance of a moody Mother Gaia, the Coast Guard crew members boarded a 47-foot lifeboat and MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter to arrive on scene about 40 minutes later.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2023/02/06/coast-guard-pulls-off-wild-rescue-in-oregon/
